first name
ANGELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 600,162 people named Angela, 63.7% reported their origin as White, 14.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 14.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Angela peaked in 1971, when 25,993 babies got the name.
At least 675,392 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Angela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #19. The largest share of babies named Angela, 50.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Angela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Angela has been most common in District of Columbia (1.4×), Indiana (1.4×), and Tennessee (1.3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.59×).
669,117 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Angela
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Angela, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Angela ranks #63,263 of 156,621, with 341 people. See Angela as a last name
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