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Angeleque vs Angelo

American parents have registered 86,956 Angelos since 1880, against 46 Angeleques. Angelo is still ahead, with 1,124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Angeleque against Angelo, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Angeleque Angelo

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

Angelo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1970, when Angeleque had 14 and Angelo had 620.

Side by side

  Angeleque Angelo
Total US births 4686,956
Most in one year 141,338
Babies in 2025 under 51,124
Estimated living today 4060,000
Median age today 5226
Peak year 19702007
Best rank 4,038th girls259th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked304th
First recorded 19701881
Girls / boys 46 / 0850 / 86,106

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 Angeleques alive today are over 52; half the Angelos are over 26. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Angeleque and Angelo.