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Angeleque vs Angie

American parents have registered 65,796 Angies since 1880, against 46 Angeleques. Angie is still ahead, with 399 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Angeleque against Angie, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Angeleque Angie

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

Angie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Angeleque had 7 and Angie had 342.

Side by side

  Angeleque Angie
Total US births 4665,796
Most in one year 141,955
Babies in 2025 under 5399
Estimated living today 4055,000
Median age today 5247
Peak year 19701975
Best rank 4,038th girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked705th
First recorded 19701880
Girls / boys 46 / 065,665 / 131

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 Angies are over 47. That is 5 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 Angie.