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Deaglan vs Deangelo

American parents have registered 12,300 Deangelos since 1880, against 534 Deaglans. Deangelo is still ahead, with 99 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deaglan against Deangelo, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deaglan Deangelo

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

Deangelo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Deaglan had 50 and Deangelo had 211.

Side by side

  Deaglan Deangelo
Total US births 53412,300
Most in one year 50478
Babies in 2025 1099
Estimated living today 53012,000
Median age today 1128
Peak year 20151990
Best rank 2,486th boys454th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th1,668th
First recorded 19991960
Girls / boys 0 / 53421 / 12,279

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 Deangelos alive today are over 28; half the Deaglans are over 11. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Deaglan Deangelo
England and Wales 3515

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: Deaglan and Deangelo.