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Angele

Angele is a girl's name that peaked in 1972, when it was the 2,022nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,300 Angeles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Angele

By the numbers

Total US births
1,546
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
47
Peak year
1972
Best rank
2,022nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1886

How old the living Angeles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,546 babies given the name since 1886, about 1,300 are alive — 81 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 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 French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Angeles

People named Angele with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Angele is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Angele is most concentrated in Louisiana (49.4×), California (0.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1972

The most popular girls’ names the year Angele peaked:

All the names of 1972

Angele elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Angèle +2 spellings 72,485 29th
Belgium girls Angèle 215 591st
France boys Angèle 210 494th
Switzerland girls Angèle 72 874th
England and Wales girls Angele 6 5,201st

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.

Angele: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Angèle 2 0.000% 862nd
French girls Switzerland Angèle 69 0.016% 284th
Italian girls Switzerland Angèle 1 0.002% 184th

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.

Angele: rank by region

In 2023, Angele was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Angèle 882 5

In 2016, Angele was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Angele 10 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.

Angele 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
Finland girls Angele +2 spellings 19

A count of people on a register – 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.

Related names

Angele against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.