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Angad vs Angelina

American parents have registered 126,392 Angelinas since 1880, against 869 Angads. Angelina is still ahead, with 875 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Angad against Angelina, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Angad Angelina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Angelina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Angad had 64 and Angelina had 985.

Side by side

  Angad Angelina
Total US births 869126,392
Most in one year 645,813
Babies in 2025 50875
Estimated living today 860101,000
Median age today 1020
Peak year 20242005
Best rank 2,236th boys43rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,604th347th
First recorded 19841880
Girls / boys 0 / 869126,281 / 111

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Angelinas alive today are over 20; half the Angads are over 10. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Angad Angelina
England and Wales 3722,395

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Angad and Angelina.