How popular is “Angel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Angel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Angel” 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 “Angel” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Angel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Angel” 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
1888	8	0.000026714		8	-100%
1890	5	0.000016589		5	-100%
1891	5	0.000017441		5	-100%
1894	5	0.000014763	5		100%
1896	5	0.000013987		5	-100%
1899	7	0.000020635		7	-100%
1900	6	0.000013326		6	-100%
1907	15	0.000032231	6	9	-20%
1908	16	0.000032743	7	9	-13%
1909	16	0.000031297	6	10	-25%
1910	13	0.000022007		13	-100%
1911	12	0.000018626		12	-100%
1912	34	0.000034411	8	26	-53%
1913	37	0.000032539	7	30	-62%
1914	44	0.000031066	7	37	-68%
1915	40	0.000021829	10	30	-50%
1916	78	0.000040322	15	63	-62%
1917	66	0.000032889	11	55	-67%
1918	63	0.000029017	8	55	-75%
1919	80	0.00003791	10	70	-75%
1920	97	0.00004287	12	85	-75%
1921	87	0.000037267	17	70	-61%
1922	102	0.000044558	12	90	-76%
1923	100	0.000043431	18	82	-64%
1924	132	0.000055425	20	112	-70%
1925	141	0.000060429	19	122	-73%
1926	149	0.000064898	19	130	-74%
1927	151	0.000065104	20	131	-74%
1928	155	0.000068556	19	136	-75%
1929	144	0.000065689	13	131	-82%
1930	187	0.00008411	21	166	-78%
1931	125	0.0000594	18	107	-71%
1932	145	0.000068678	20	125	-72%
1933	114	0.000057016	14	100	-75%
1934	133	0.00006404	14	119	-79%
1935	109	0.000052156	15	94	-72%
1936	110	0.000052946	13	97	-76%
1937	115	0.000053974	12	103	-79%
1938	106	0.000047908	15	91	-72%
1939	107	0.00004856	21	86	-61%
1940	109	0.000047336	19	90	-65%
1941	148	0.000060745	41	107	-45%
1942	137	0.00005015	31	106	-55%
1943	156	0.000055269	39	117	-50%
1944	145	0.000053902	31	114	-57%
1945	149	0.000056165	24	125	-68%
1946	176	0.000055081	39	137	-56%
1947	213	0.000059129	42	171	-61%
1948	278	0.000080521	53	225	-62%
1949	237	0.00006801	52	185	-56%
1950	281	0.000080209	47	234	-67%
1951	333	0.000090397	56	277	-66%
1952	367	0.00009663	54	313	-71%
1953	400	0.000103798	72	328	-64%
1954	533	0.000133896	92	441	-65%
1955	530	0.000132002	97	433	-63%
1956	619	0.000150132	123	496	-60%
1957	715	0.000170151	144	571	-60%
1958	718	0.000173686	189	529	-47%
1959	820	0.000197211	218	602	-47%
1960	931	0.000224131	267	664	-43%
1961	1265	0.000305386	596	669	-6%
1962	1146	0.000283989	450	696	-21%
1963	1058	0.000267293	411	647	-22%
1964	1121	0.000288352	424	697	-24%
1965	1123	0.000309755	401	722	-29%
1966	1204	0.00034641	438	766	-27%
1967	1171	0.000344929	399	772	-32%
1968	1337	0.000395748	504	833	-25%
1969	1579	0.000454346	641	938	-19%
1970	2143	0.000594203	1108	1035	3%
1971	2490	0.000725449	1489	1001	20%
1972	2900	0.000922687	1945	955	34%
1973	2864	0.000949323	1815	1049	27%
1974	2561	0.000842434	1450	1111	13%
1975	2690	0.000890907	1598	1092	19%
1976	2781	0.000916521	1642	1139	18%
1977	3380	0.001064066	2136	1244	26%
1978	3184	0.001003192	1935	1249	22%
1979	3001	0.000902014	1697	1304	13%
1980	3105	0.000901436	1687	1418	9%
1981	3115	0.000900452	1815	1300	17%
1982	3186	0.00090822	1744	1442	9%
1983	2925	0.000844561	1576	1349	8%
1984	3103	0.000889429	1685	1418	9%
1985	3342	0.000936368	1781	1561	7%
1986	3234	0.000909173	1583	1651	-2%
1987	3099	0.000859493	1445	1654	-7%
1988	3532	0.000955875	1704	1828	-4%
1989	3892	0.001012369	1716	2176	-12%
1990	4068	0.001029228	1662	2406	-18%
1991	4520	0.001160383	1835	2685	-19%
1992	4745	0.001235268	1696	3049	-29%
1993	4669	0.00123837	1633	3036	-30%
1994	5151	0.001385552	1674	3477	-35%
1995	5467	0.001492837	1733	3734	-37%
1996	5851	0.001604247	1939	3912	-34%
1997	6728	0.001855617	2214	4514	-34%
1998	7156	0.001945513	2384	4772	-33%
1999	8133	0.002201758	2731	5402	-33%
2000	9139	0.002417786	2833	6306	-38%
2001	10058	0.002686869	3080	6978	-39%
2002	11292	0.003020632	3100	8192	-45%
2003	12052	0.003169645	2891	9161	-52%
2004	12130	0.003174626	2614	9516	-57%
2005	13382	0.003480504	2389	10993	-64%
2006	13828	0.003495283	2226	11602	-68%
2007	13678	0.003421482	2302	11376	-66%
2008	12483	0.003175799	2127	10356	-66%
2009	11733	0.003071325	1882	9851	-68%
2010	10386	0.002810263	1610	8776	-69%
2011	9014	0.002464328	1478	7536	-67%
2012	8432	0.002305484	1408	7024	-67%
2013	7596	0.002083569	1227	6369	-68%
2014	7515	0.002027587	1202	6313	-68%
2015	7237	0.001955464	1123	6114	-69%
2016	6578	0.001793007	1017	5561	-69%
2017	6203	0.001734525	929	5274	-70%
2018	5919	0.001683496	855	5064	-71%
2019	5700	0.00164221	786	4914	-72%
2020	5224	0.001563802	700	4524	-73%
2021	5367	0.001584144	651	4716	-76%
2022	5703	0.001685715	605	5098	-79%
2023	5479	0.001654689	589	4890	-78%
2024	5577	0.001675529	613	4964	-78%

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