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Angie vs Angila

American parents have registered 65,796 Angies since 1880, against 613 Angilas. Angie is still ahead, with 399 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angie 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

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 1973, when Angie had 987 and Angila had 37.

Side by side

  Angie Angila
Total US births 65,796613
Most in one year 1,95537
Babies in 2025 399under 5
Estimated living today 55,000570
Median age today 4751
Peak year 19751973
Best rank 140th girls2,127th girls
Rank in 2025 705thunranked
First recorded 18801952
Girls / boys 65,665 / 131613 / 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 Angies are over 47. That is 4 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: Angie and Angila.