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Angelea vs Angelo

American parents have registered 86,956 Angelos since 1880, against 1,017 Angeleas. Angelo is still ahead, with 1,124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Angelea against Angelo, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Angelea Angelo

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

Angelo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Angelea had 75 and Angelo had 750.

Side by side

  Angelea Angelo
Total US births 1,01786,956
Most in one year 751,338
Babies in 2025 under 51,124
Estimated living today 98060,000
Median age today 3426
Peak year 19902007
Best rank 1,880th girls259th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked304th
First recorded 19531881
Girls / boys 1,017 / 0850 / 86,106

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 Angeleas alive today are over 34; half the Angelos are over 26. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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