girls:
99.1k births since 1894
#371 (94th percentile)
boys:
256k births since 1888
#143 (97th percentile)
overall:
355.1k births since 1888
#206 (97th percentile)
The name Angel is the #206 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 355,110 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 97.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #143 (96.9% percentile) for all time with 256,035 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #371 (93.5% percentile) for all time with 99,075 births since 1894.
Angel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1894 for girls). Birth data for Angel is available in 124 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (123 years for boys and 116 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Angel has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.4% of babies named Angel were boys.
For boys, Angel reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 96.7% percentile (ranked #30) with 5,292 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5,292 births per million (ranked 96.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Angel ranks #61 for boys (93.4% percentile) with 2,657 births per million, which is 50.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Angel reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 88.6% percentile (ranked #103) with 1,555 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 1,570 births per million (ranked 87.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Angel ranks #463 for girls (51.2% percentile) with 331 births per million, which is 21.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Angel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Angel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Angel is pronounced as AYN-juhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-juhl, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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