Angela
The girl's name Angela has been in the national records since 1880, with 675,392 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 408th. About 608,000 Angelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Angela boys named Angela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 675,392
- Estimated living today
- 608,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1971
- Best rank
- 6th
- Rank in 2025
- 408th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 673,257 / 2,135
How old the living Angelas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 675,392 babies given the name since 1880, about 608,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 27,000 of them are children and 49,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (“messenger, angel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Angelas
- Angela Davis (born 1944)American political activist, scholar, and author
- Angela Lansbury (1925–2022)British-American-Irish actress and singer
- Angela Bassett (born 1958)American actress
- Angela Carter (1940–1992)English novelist
- Angela Rayner (born 1980)British politician
- Angela White (born 1985)Australian pornographic actress, pornographic director, and model
- Angela Gheorghiu (born 1965)Romanian opera soprano
- Angela Gossow (born 1974)German metal vocalist
People named Angela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Angela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Angela is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (1.5×), Indiana (1.4×), Tennessee (1.3×), Alaska (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1971
The most popular girls’ names the year Angela peaked:
Angela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Angela | 26,199 | 24th |
| Italy girls | Angela | 21,479 | — |
| France girls | Angela +2 spellings | 9,795 | 244th |
| New Zealand girls | Angela | 9,634 | 3rd |
| Scotland girls | Angela | 6,577 | 4th |
| Ireland girls | Angela | 4,445 | 21st |
| England and Wales girls | Angela | 2,079 | 433rd |
| Switzerland girls | Angela | 939 | 55th |
| Norway girls | Angela | 534 | 248th |
| Belgium girls | Angela | 471 | 418th |
| Poland girls | Angela | 380 birth registrations | 156th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Angela | 54 | 248th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Angela: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Angela | 690 | 0.055% | 50th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Angela | 205 | 0.047% | 126th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Angela | 42 | 0.064% | 72nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Angela | 2 | 0.054% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Angela is most concentrated in Schwyz, where 0.11% of children were given it – 37 of them.
Angela: rank by region
In 2024, Angela was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Angela | 378 | 7 |
In 2008, Angela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Rioja | Angela | 8 | 27 |
In 2019, Angela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Angela | 10 | 1 |
In 2022, Angela was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Angela | 244 | 2 |
In 1999, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Angela appears in the lists for Sud (10th).
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Angela appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (271st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Angela by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 25 | 318th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Angela among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Angela | 10,838 | 15,584 |
| Finland girls | Angela | 233 | 581 |
| the Netherlands boys | Angela | — | 195 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Angela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 92,478 women called Angela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ciudad Real | Angela | 2,388 | 9.578 | 17 |
| Badajoz | Angela | 2,568 | 7.621 | 23 |
| Zamora | Angela | 623 | 7.453 | 19 |
| Salamanca | Angela | 1,214 | 7.169 | 25 |
| Cáceres | Angela | 1,397 | 7.130 | 25 |
| Cuenca | Angela | 653 | 6.604 | 23 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Angela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.