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Angelo vs Angelyna

American parents have registered 86,956 Angelos since 1880, against 596 Angelynas. Angelo is still ahead, with 1,124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angelo Angelyna

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 2004, when Angelo had 1,218 and Angelyna had 54.

Side by side

  Angelo Angelyna
Total US births 86,956596
Most in one year 1,33854
Babies in 2025 1,124under 5
Estimated living today 60,000590
Median age today 2619
Peak year 20072004
Best rank 259th boys2,927th girls
Rank in 2025 304thunranked
First recorded 18811990
Girls / boys 850 / 86,106596 / 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 Angelos alive today are over 26; half the Angelynas are over 19. That is 7 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 Angelo Angelyna
France 13,925230

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: Angelo and Angelyna.