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 0.000046707 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 0.000110194 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 0.00025691 98 100%
1899 80 0.000235826 80 100%
1900 107 0.00023764 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 0.000349118 148 100%
1906 123 0.000287081 123 100%
1907 174 0.000373878 174 100%
1908 183 0.0003745 183 100%
1909 204 0.000399042 204 100%
1910 260 0.000440147 260 100%
1911 292 0.00045322 292 100%
1912 398 0.00040281 398 100%
1913 447 0.000393101 447 100%
1914 590 0.000416565 590 100%
1915 698 0.000380915 698 100%
1916 716 0.000370137 716 100%
1917 742 0.000369751 742 100%
1918 726 0.000334391 721 5 99%
1919 654 0.000309916 654 100%
1920 674 0.000297881 665 9 97%
1921 679 0.000290854 671 8 98%
1922 649 0.000283511 641 8 98%
1923 671 0.000291423 666 5 99%
1924 605 0.000254029 600 5 98%
1925 565 0.000242144 560 5 98%
1926 577 0.000251318 572 5 98%
1927 609 0.000262573 601 8 97%
1928 628 0.000277765 621 7 98%
1929 684 0.00031202 676 8 98%
1930 649 0.000291911 639 10 97%
1931 619 0.000294153 619 100%
1932 616 0.000291768 608 8 97%
1933 577 0.000288585 577 100%
1934 627 0.000301912 627 100%
1935 618 0.000295719 618 100%
1936 595 0.000286398 595 100%
1937 791 0.000371253 784 7 98%
1938 728 0.00032903 717 11 97%
1939 733 0.000332667 733 100%
1940 726 0.000315296 726 100%
1941 827 0.000339444 822 5 99%
1942 1022 0.000374122 1016 6 99%
1943 941 0.000333392 933 8 98%
1944 1014 0.000376951 1008 6 99%
1945 1063 0.000400701 1057 6 99%
1946 1286 0.000402473 1280 6 99%
1947 1648 0.000457495 1648 100%
1948 1801 0.000521654 1801 100%
1949 1968 0.000564752 1968 100%
1950 2062 0.00058857 2057 5 100%
1951 2144 0.000582013 2138 6 99%
1952 2650 0.000697729 2642 8 99%
1953 3196 0.000829352 3185 11 99%
1954 3551 0.000892052 3543 8 100%
1955 3901 0.00097159 3896 5 100%
1956 5045 0.001223598 5034 11 100%
1957 5340 0.001270674 5327 13 100%
1958 5780 0.001398579 5763 17 99%
1959 6793 0.00163422 6771 22 99%
1960 8702 0.002094702 8681 21 100%
1961 10864 0.002623568 10840 24 100%
1962 11686 0.002896124 11659 27 100%
1963 13316 0.003363824 13281 35 99%
1964 16301 0.004192997 16258 43 99%
1965 18791 0.005182831 18750 41 100%
1966 18581 0.00534608 18533 48 99%
1967 19613 0.005777008 19548 65 99%
1968 20721 0.006133092 20670 51 100%
1969 21109 0.006073403 21060 49 100%
1970 25013 0.0069349 24930 83 99%
1971 25993 0.007572655 25901 92 99%
1972 23629 0.007517213 23560 69 99%
1973 20970 0.006950335 20897 73 99%
1974 22893 0.007530082 22804 89 99%
1975 23451 0.007765926 23361 90 99%
1976 22096 0.007281274 22038 58 99%
1977 21072 0.006633292 20998 74 99%
1978 20589 0.006486377 20516 73 99%
1979 20329 0.006109735 20259 70 99%
1980 18026 0.005232756 17968 58 99%
1981 15974 0.004617313 15922 52 99%
1982 15059 0.004292539 15002 57 99%
1983 13251 0.003825965 13215 36 99%
1984 11351 0.003253614 11293 58 99%
1985 10268 0.002876985 10225 43 99%
1986 9312 0.002617972 9269 43 99%
1987 8630 0.002393606 8581 49 99%
1988 7946 0.002150614 7913 33 99%
1989 7253 0.001886688 7199 54 99%
1990 6695 0.001694034 6665 30 99%
1991 5820 0.001494228 5802 18 99%
1992 5094 0.00132623 5079 15 99%
1993 4580 0.00121486 4570 10 100%
1994 4422 0.001189555 4413 9 100%
1995 4125 0.001126468 4118 7 100%
1996 3877 0.001063089 3864 13 99%
1997 3668 0.001011715 3652 16 99%
1998 3380 0.000918982 3369 11 99%
1999 3644 0.000986567 3632 12 99%
2000 3836 0.001014917 3827 9 100%
2001 3926 0.001048865 3914 12 99%
2002 3722 0.000995775 3714 8 100%
2003 3332 0.000876436 3320 12 99%
2004 3169 0.000829503 3160 9 99%
2005 2905 0.00075569 2895 10 99%
2006 2935 0.000742039 2926 9 99%
2007 2762 0.000691079 2755 7 99%
2008 2548 0.00064844 2540 8 99%
2009 2258 0.000591282 2258 100%
2010 1916 0.000518619 1916 100%
2011 1677 0.000458659 1677 100%
2012 1640 0.000448613 1640 100%
2013 1650 0.000452842 1650 100%
2014 1737 0.000468929 1737 100%
2015 1491 0.000403149 1491 100%
2016 1511 0.000412182 1511 100%
2017 1348 0.0003773 1348 100%
2018 1239 0.000352816 1239 100%
2019 1270 0.000366436 1270 100%
2020 1189 0.000356631 1189 100%
2021 1278 0.000378139 1278 100%
2022 1316 0.000391446 1316 100%