girls:
92.3k births since 1892
#392 (93rd percentile)
boys:
321 births since 1970
#4265 (7th percentile)
overall:
92.6k births since 1892
#724 (91st percentile)
The name Angelica is the #724 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 92,638 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 90.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #392 (93.2% percentile) for all time with 92,317 births since 1892. For boys, it ranks #4,265 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 321 births since 1970.
Angelica first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Angelica is available in 121 out of the 132 years between 1892 and 2023 (121 years for girls and 29 years for boys). 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 Angelica has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Angelica reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 88.9% percentile (ranked #97) with 1,644 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 1,775 births per million (ranked 88.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Angelica ranks #532 for girls (43.9% percentile) with 261 births per million, which is 14.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Angelica reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #732) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 12 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Angelica".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Angelica. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.8% confident that Angelica is pronounced as an-JEH-lih-kuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-JEH-lih-kuh, at 17.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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