Angel

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Angel boys named Angel

Girls and boys called Angel

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Angel crossed from girls to boys in 1986, having already crossed in 1970, and has stayed there for 40 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 90% boys, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 114 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

366,174

Estimated living today

352,000

Median age today

21

Peak year

2006

Best rank

31st

Rank in 2025

67th

First recorded

1888

Girls / boys

100,288 / 265,886

How old the living Angels are

born that year still alive today

Of the 366,174 babies given the name since 1888, about 352,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 131,000 of them are children and 5,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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.

Notable Angels

• Ángel Di María (born 1988)Argentine footballer
• Ángel Correa (born 1995)Argentine association football player
• Ángel Ortiz (born 1977)Paraguayan association football player
• Ángel Nieto (1947–2017)Spanish motorcycle racer
• Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas (1791–1865)Spanish writer, poet, playwright and politician
• Angel Gomes (born 2000)English association football player
• Ángel Javier Arizmendi (born 1984)Spanish footballer
• Ángel Bossio (1905–1978)Argentine association football player

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

Where Angel is most common

• CA87,511
• TX54,903
• NY28,437
• FL17,253
• IL17,117
• AZ14,131
• NJ10,317
• GA9,309
• NC8,314
• PA8,207

Relative to how many babies each state records, Angel is most concentrated in Nevada (3.3×), Arizona (3.2×), California (2.4×), Texas (2.0×).

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

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Angel peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Ethan
• Matthew
• Daniel

All the names of 2006

Angel elsewhere

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.

Angel: births by region

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, Angel is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.04% of children were given it – 62 of them.

Angel: rank by region

In 2024, Angel was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2012, Angel was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2023, Angel was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Angel appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (289th).

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 – 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.

Angel by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Angel 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.

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 Angel lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 202,742 men called Angel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Angela
• Angelina
• Angelica
• Angelo
• Angie
• Angeline
• Angelique
• Angelia
• Angelita
• Angus
• Angelic
• Angella

Angel against another name

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

• Angel vs Angela
• Angel vs Angelina
• Angel vs Angelica
• Angel vs Angelo
• Angel vs Angie
• Angel vs Angeline

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