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Argelia

The girl's name Argelia has been in the national records since 1932, with 836 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 790 Argelias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Argelia

By the numbers

Total US births
836
Estimated living today
790
Median age today
36
Peak year
1992
Best rank
3,968th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1932

How old the living Argelias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 836 babies given the name since 1932, about 790 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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 Argelia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Argelia is most concentrated in California (6.0×), Texas (5.1×).

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

Names of 1992

The most popular girls’ names the year Argelia peaked:

All the names of 1992

Where Argelia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 426 women called Argelia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Argelia 174 0.314 370
Palmas, Las Argelia 67 0.114 896
León Argelia 11 0.048 1,170
Lugo Argelia 7 0.042 1,200
Salamanca Argelia 6 0.035 1,229
Albacete Argelia 5 0.026 1,476

Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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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.