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Angelina vs Angelynn

American parents have registered 126,392 Angelinas since 1880, against 674 Angelynns. Angelina is still ahead, with 875 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angelina Angelynn

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 1948, when Angelina had 213 and Angelynn had 6.

Side by side

  Angelina Angelynn
Total US births 126,392674
Most in one year 5,81336
Babies in 2025 875under 5
Estimated living today 101,000660
Median age today 2017
Peak year 20052013
Best rank 43rd girls4,076th girls
Rank in 2025 347thunranked
First recorded 18801948
Girls / boys 126,281 / 111674 / 0

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 Angelynns are over 17. That is 3 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.

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