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Angie vs Angle

American parents have registered 65,796 Angies since 1880, against 1,279 Angles. Angie is still ahead, with 399 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angie Angle

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 1993, when Angie had 307 and Angle had 29.

Side by side

  Angie Angle
Total US births 65,7961,279
Most in one year 1,95557
Babies in 2025 399under 5
Estimated living today 55,0001,200
Median age today 4743
Peak year 19751975
Best rank 140th girls1,780th girls
Rank in 2025 705thunranked
First recorded 18801945
Girls / boys 65,665 / 1311,149 / 130

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 Angles are over 43. 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 Angle.