girls:
11.7k births since 1883
#1457 (75th percentile)
boys:
37 births since 1928
#4549 (1st percentile)
overall:
11.7k births since 1883
#2438 (68th percentile)
The name Angelita is the #2,438 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,696 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 68.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,457 (74.5% percentile) for all time with 11,659 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,549 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1928.
Angelita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1928 for boys). Birth data for Angelita is available in 136 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 6 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 Angelita has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Angelita reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 23.5% percentile (ranked #576) with 117 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 117 births per million (ranked 21.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Angelita ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 11.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Angelita reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #540) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Angelita".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Angelita. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Angelita is pronounced as AN-juh-LEE-tuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahng-geh-LEE-tuh, at 15.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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