Angela vs Angelina
American parents have registered 675,392 Angelas since 1880, against 126,392 Angelinas. But in 2025 it was Angelina that was commoner, 875 babies to 765.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Angela Angelina
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
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Angela for 91 years and Angelina for 55 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1884–1887 Angela ahead
- 1899–1931 Angelina ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1932–2001 Angela ahead
- 2002–2018 Angelina ahead
- 2019–2024 Angela ahead
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Angela | Angelina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 675,392 | 126,392 |
| Most in one year | 25,993 | 5,813 |
| Babies in 2025 | 765 | 875 |
| Estimated living today | 608,000 | 101,000 |
| Median age today | 50 | 20 |
| Peak year | 1971 | 2005 |
| Best rank | 6th girls | 43rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 408th | 347th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 673,257 / 2,135 | 126,281 / 111 |
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 Angelas alive today are over 50; half the Angelinas are over 20. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Angela the District of Columbia (1.5×), Indiana (1.4×), Tennessee (1.3×)
- Angelina Nevada (2.7×), New Mexico (2.5×), Rhode Island (2.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Angela | Angelina |
|---|---|---|
| France | 9,795 | 23,385 |
| Italy | 21,479 | 942 |
| New Zealand | 9,634 | 43 |
| Scotland | 6,577 | 127 |
| Ireland | 4,445 | 342 |
| England and Wales | 2,079 | 2,395 |
| Switzerland | 939 | 1,747 |
| Belgium | 471 | 1,006 |
| Poland | 380 | 661 |
| Norway | 534 | 345 |
| Northern Ireland | 54 | 43 |
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: Angela and Angelina.