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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 0.000133391 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 0.000199418 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 0.000237641 107 100%
1901 89 0.000257365 89 100%
1902 116 0.000299949 116 100%
1903 132 0.000346273 132 100%
1904 124 0.000307322 124 100%
1905 148 0.000349119 148 100%
1906 123 0.000287081 123 100%
1907 174 0.000373879 174 100%
1908 183 0.000374501 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 0.000393101 447 100%
1914 590 0.000416565 590 100%
1915 698 0.000380915 698 100%
1916 716 0.000370138 716 100%
1917 742 0.000369752 742 100%
1918 726 0.000334391 721 5 99%
1919 654 0.000309916 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 0.000291424 666 5 99%
1924 605 0.00025403 600 5 98%
1925 565 0.000242146 560 5 98%
1926 577 0.000251318 572 5 98%
1927 609 0.000262572 601 8 97%
1928 628 0.000277763 621 7 98%
1929 684 0.000312022 676 8 98%
1930 649 0.00029191 639 10 97%
1931 619 0.00029415 619 100%
1932 616 0.000291766 608 8 97%
1933 577 0.000288582 577 100%
1934 627 0.000301906 627 100%
1935 618 0.000295712 618 100%
1936 595 0.000286394 595 100%
1937 791 0.000371251 784 7 98%
1938 728 0.000329029 717 11 97%
1939 734 0.000333118 734 100%
1940 726 0.000315291 726 100%
1941 827 0.000339438 822 5 99%
1942 1022 0.000374118 1016 6 99%
1943 941 0.000333386 933 8 98%
1944 1014 0.000376944 1008 6 99%
1945 1063 0.000400698 1057 6 99%
1946 1286 0.000402469 1280 6 99%
1947 1648 0.000457491 1648 100%
1948 1801 0.00052165 1801 100%
1949 1968 0.000564748 1968 100%
1950 2062 0.000588576 2057 5 100%
1951 2144 0.00058202 2138 6 99%
1952 2650 0.000697735 2642 8 99%
1953 3196 0.000829352 3185 11 99%
1954 3551 0.000892058 3543 8 100%
1955 3901 0.000971599 3896 5 100%
1956 5044 0.00122337 5033 11 100%
1957 5341 0.001271043 5328 13 100%
1958 5781 0.001398319 5764 17 99%
1959 6793 0.001634221 6771 22 99%
1960 8703 0.002095129 8682 21 100%
1961 10862 0.002622434 10838 24 100%
1962 11688 0.002896783 11661 27 100%
1963 13314 0.003363538 13279 35 99%
1964 16301 0.004193114 16258 43 99%
1965 18793 0.005183588 18752 41 100%
1966 18581 0.005346172 18533 48 99%
1967 19615 0.005777813 19550 65 99%
1968 20724 0.006134332 20673 51 100%
1969 21107 0.006073347 21058 49 100%
1970 25013 0.006935529 24930 83 99%
1971 25993 0.007573091 25901 92 99%
1972 23628 0.007517615 23559 69 99%
1973 20971 0.006951286 20898 73 99%
1974 22892 0.007530263 22803 89 99%
1975 23450 0.007766513 23360 90 99%
1976 22096 0.007282046 22038 58 99%
1977 21072 0.0066339 20998 74 99%
1978 20591 0.006487765 20518 73 99%
1979 20326 0.006109479 20256 70 99%
1980 18025 0.005232995 17967 58 99%
1981 15975 0.004617941 15923 52 99%
1982 15059 0.004292832 15002 57 99%
1983 13252 0.003826435 13216 36 99%
1984 11349 0.003253115 11291 58 99%
1985 10268 0.002877017 10225 43 99%
1986 9312 0.002617976 9269 43 99%
1987 8630 0.002393572 8581 49 99%
1988 7947 0.002150825 7914 33 99%
1989 7253 0.001886674 7199 54 99%
1990 6694 0.00169372 6664 30 99%
1991 5819 0.001493933 5801 18 99%
1992 5094 0.001326189 5079 15 99%
1993 4582 0.001215341 4572 10 100%
1994 4422 0.001189515 4413 9 100%
1995 4126 0.001126701 4119 7 100%
1996 3879 0.001063601 3866 13 99%
1997 3668 0.001011686 3652 16 99%
1998 3380 0.000918956 3369 11 99%
1999 3644 0.000986532 3632 12 99%
2000 3837 0.001015135 3828 9 100%
2001 3926 0.001048817 3914 12 99%
2002 3724 0.000996219 3716 8 100%
2003 3332 0.000876377 3320 12 99%
2004 3170 0.000829705 3161 9 99%
2005 2906 0.000755876 2896 10 99%
2006 2935 0.000741949 2926 9 99%
2007 2763 0.000691224 2756 7 99%
2008 2548 0.00064833 2540 8 99%
2009 2258 0.000591178 2258 100%
2010 1916 0.000518518 1916 100%
2011 1677 0.000458553 1677 100%
2012 1640 0.000448498 1640 100%
2013 1651 0.000452974 1651 100%
2014 1738 0.000469043 1738 100%
2015 1491 0.000402989 1491 100%
2016 1511 0.000411995 1511 100%
2017 1351 0.000377932 1351 100%
2018 1241 0.000353144 1241 100%
2019 1270 0.000366122 1270 100%
2020 1189 0.000356218 1189 100%
2021 1281 0.000378469 1281 100%
2022 1319 0.000390397 1319 100%
2023 1205 0.000365457 1205 100%