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Angie vs Anglea

American parents have registered 65,796 Angies since 1880, against 1,489 Angleas. Angie is still ahead, with 399 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Angie Anglea

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 1972, when Angie had 1,016 and Anglea had 97.

Side by side

  Angie Anglea
Total US births 65,7961,489
Most in one year 1,95597
Babies in 2025 399under 5
Estimated living today 55,0001,400
Median age today 4752
Peak year 19751972
Best rank 140th girls1,133rd girls
Rank in 2025 705thunranked
First recorded 18801954
Girls / boys 65,665 / 1311,489 / 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 Angleas alive today are over 52; half the Angies are over 47. That is 5 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: Angie and Anglea.