Name Trends

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How popular is “Angela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Angela” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Angela” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Angela” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Angela” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Angela” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Angela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Angela” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 7 0.000034742 7 100%
1881 9 0.000046708 9 100%
1882 24 0.000108336 24 100%
1883 22 0.000101408 22 100%
1884 20 0.000082149 20 100%
1885 18 0.000074734 18 100%
1886 24 0.000094001 24 100%
1887 33 0.000133392 33 100%
1888 33 0.000110193 33 100%
1889 42 0.000145356 42 100%
1890 45 0.000149303 45 100%
1891 29 0.000101161 29 100%
1892 63 0.000188412 63 100%
1893 67 0.000206012 67 100%
1894 64 0.000188963 64 100%
1895 70 0.000199419 70 100%
1896 60 0.00016784 60 100%
1897 95 0.000273809 95 100%
1898 98 0.000256911 98 100%
1899 80 0.000235825 80 100%
1900 107 0.000237642 107 100%
1901 89 0.000257365 89 100%
1902 116 0.000299949 116 100%
1903 132 0.000346275 132 100%
1904 124 0.000307322 124 100%
1905 148 0.000349121 148 100%
1906 123 0.000287081 123 100%
1907 174 0.00037388 174 100%
1908 183 0.000374502 183 100%
1909 204 0.000399042 204 100%
1910 260 0.000440148 260 100%
1911 292 0.000453221 292 100%
1912 398 0.000402809 398 100%
1913 447 0.000393102 447 100%
1914 590 0.000416565 590 100%
1915 698 0.000380916 698 100%
1916 716 0.000370137 716 100%
1917 742 0.000369752 742 100%
1918 726 0.000334391 721 5 99%
1919 654 0.000309917 654 100%
1920 674 0.000297882 665 9 97%
1921 679 0.000290854 671 8 98%
1922 649 0.000283511 641 8 98%
1923 671 0.000291425 666 5 99%
1924 605 0.00025403 600 5 98%
1925 565 0.000242146 560 5 98%
1926 577 0.000251317 572 5 98%
1927 609 0.000262573 601 8 97%
1928 628 0.000277761 621 7 98%
1929 684 0.000312021 676 8 98%
1930 649 0.00029191 639 10 97%
1931 619 0.000294147 619 100%
1932 616 0.000291765 608 8 97%
1933 577 0.00028858 577 100%
1934 627 0.000301904 627 100%
1935 618 0.000295708 618 100%
1936 595 0.000286391 595 100%
1937 791 0.000371245 784 7 98%
1938 728 0.000329029 717 11 97%
1939 734 0.000333115 734 100%
1940 726 0.000315284 726 100%
1941 827 0.000339432 822 5 99%
1942 1022 0.00037411 1016 6 99%
1943 941 0.000333385 933 8 98%
1944 1014 0.000376941 1008 6 99%
1945 1063 0.000400692 1057 6 99%
1946 1286 0.000402465 1280 6 99%
1947 1648 0.000457483 1648 100%
1948 1801 0.000521648 1801 100%
1949 1967 0.000564455 1967 100%
1950 2062 0.000588578 2057 5 100%
1951 2143 0.000581746 2137 6 99%
1952 2650 0.000697735 2642 8 99%
1953 3196 0.000829345 3185 11 99%
1954 3551 0.000892052 3543 8 100%
1955 3900 0.000971338 3895 5 100%
1956 5044 0.00122337 5033 11 100%
1957 5339 0.001270542 5326 13 100%
1958 5783 0.00139892 5766 17 99%
1959 6795 0.001634202 6773 22 99%
1960 8703 0.002095182 8682 21 100%
1961 10865 0.002622938 10841 24 100%
1962 11690 0.002896883 11663 27 100%
1963 13313 0.003363397 13278 35 99%
1964 16300 0.004192813 16257 43 99%
1965 18793 0.005183634 18752 41 100%
1966 18583 0.005346618 18535 48 99%
1967 19616 0.005778084 19551 65 99%
1968 20722 0.006133649 20671 51 100%
1969 21111 0.006074543 21062 49 100%
1970 25013 0.006935506 24930 83 99%
1971 25992 0.007572643 25900 92 99%
1972 23631 0.007518627 23562 69 99%
1973 20971 0.006951205 20898 73 99%
1974 22892 0.007530265 22803 89 99%
1975 23450 0.007766459 23360 90 99%
1976 22097 0.007282405 22039 58 99%
1977 21073 0.006634044 20999 74 99%
1978 20591 0.006487663 20518 73 99%
1979 20327 0.006109708 20257 70 99%
1980 18025 0.005232971 17967 58 99%
1981 15978 0.004618753 15926 52 99%
1982 15059 0.004292806 15002 57 99%
1983 13254 0.003826943 13218 36 99%
1984 11350 0.00325331 11292 58 99%
1985 10268 0.002876908 10225 43 99%
1986 9312 0.002617879 9269 43 99%
1987 8630 0.00239349 8581 49 99%
1988 7948 0.00215099 7915 33 99%
1989 7253 0.001886617 7199 54 99%
1990 6696 0.001694127 6666 30 99%
1991 5820 0.001494122 5802 18 99%
1992 5094 0.001326123 5079 15 99%
1993 4582 0.001215295 4572 10 100%
1994 4423 0.001189729 4414 9 100%
1995 4126 0.001126659 4119 7 100%
1996 3880 0.001063831 3867 13 99%
1997 3668 0.001011653 3652 16 99%
1998 3380 0.000918926 3369 11 99%
1999 3644 0.0009865 3632 12 99%
2000 3838 0.00101537 3829 9 100%
2001 3926 0.001048782 3914 12 99%
2002 3723 0.00099591 3715 8 100%
2003 3332 0.000876307 3320 12 99%
2004 3171 0.000829904 3162 9 99%
2005 2907 0.000756077 2897 10 99%
2006 2935 0.000741876 2926 9 99%
2007 2763 0.00069115 2756 7 99%
2008 2550 0.000648745 2542 8 99%
2009 2258 0.000591072 2258 100%
2010 1916 0.000518435 1916 100%
2011 1678 0.000458747 1678 100%
2012 1640 0.00044841 1640 100%
2013 1651 0.000452866 1651 100%
2014 1737 0.000468652 1737 100%
2015 1491 0.000402874 1491 100%
2016 1511 0.000411863 1511 100%
2017 1351 0.000377776 1351 100%
2018 1242 0.000353253 1242 100%
2019 1271 0.000366184 1271 100%
2020 1189 0.000355927 1189 100%
2021 1282 0.0003784 1282 100%
2022 1321 0.000390466 1321 100%
2023 1213 0.000366333 1213 100%
2024 1117 0.000335586 1117 100%