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Angelis vs Angie

American parents have registered 65,796 Angies since 1880, against 565 Angelises. Angie is still ahead, with 399 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Angelis against Angie, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Angelis Angie

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

Angie 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 2011, when Angelis had 28 and Angie had 619.

Side by side

  Angelis Angie
Total US births 56565,796
Most in one year 351,955
Babies in 2025 under 5399
Estimated living today 56055,000
Median age today 1847
Peak year 20071975
Best rank 4,299th girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked705th
First recorded 19881880
Girls / boys 530 / 3565,665 / 131

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 Angies alive today are over 47; half the Angelises are over 18. That is 29 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: Angelis and Angie.