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Angelo vs Angie

American parents have registered 86,956 Angelos since 1880, against 65,796 Angies. Angelo is still ahead, with 1,124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angelo 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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Angelo for 95 years and Angie for 51 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Angelo Angie
Total US births 86,95665,796
Most in one year 1,3381,955
Babies in 2025 1,124399
Estimated living today 60,00055,000
Median age today 2647
Peak year 20071975
Best rank 259th boys140th girls
Rank in 2025 304th705th
First recorded 18811880
Girls / boys 850 / 86,10665,665 / 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 Angelos are over 26. That is 21 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 Angie
France 13,9252,780
England and Wales 1,514157
Belgium 1,031351
Switzerland 71898
Scotland 3686
Ireland 773

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 Angie.