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Angelo vs Angelynn

American parents have registered 86,956 Angelos since 1880, against 674 Angelynns. Angelo is still ahead, with 1,124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angelo 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

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 2013, when Angelo had 1,121 and Angelynn had 36.

Side by side

  Angelo Angelynn
Total US births 86,956674
Most in one year 1,33836
Babies in 2025 1,124under 5
Estimated living today 60,000660
Median age today 2617
Peak year 20072013
Best rank 259th boys4,076th girls
Rank in 2025 304thunranked
First recorded 18811948
Girls / boys 850 / 86,106674 / 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 Angelynns are over 17. That is 9 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: Angelo and Angelynn.