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Angelo vs Angila

American parents have registered 86,956 Angelos since 1880, against 613 Angilas. Angelo is still ahead, with 1,124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angelo Angila

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 1973, when Angelo had 533 and Angila had 37.

Side by side

  Angelo Angila
Total US births 86,956613
Most in one year 1,33837
Babies in 2025 1,124under 5
Estimated living today 60,000570
Median age today 2651
Peak year 20071973
Best rank 259th boys2,127th girls
Rank in 2025 304thunranked
First recorded 18811952
Girls / boys 850 / 86,106613 / 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 Angilas alive today are over 51; half the Angelos are over 26. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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