first name
ANGELITA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 11,209 people named Angelita, 65.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 21.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 5.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Angelita peaked in 1975, when 182 babies got the name.
At least 11,739 babies have been given the name since 1883. 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.
Angelita by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #1,168. The largest share of babies named Angelita, 21.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Angelita is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Angelita has been most common in Arizona (8.6×), Texas (7.8×), and New Mexico (3.5×), and least common in Ohio (0.07×).
8,717 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.
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