girls:
850 births since 1915
#4866 (15th percentile)
boys:
83.8k births since 1881
#346 (92nd percentile)
overall:
84.6k births since 1881
#763 (90th percentile)
The name Angelo is the #763 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84,642 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 90.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #346 (92.5% percentile) for all time with 83,792 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #4,866 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 850 births since 1915.
Angelo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Angelo is available in 142 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 69 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 Angelo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Angelo reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 73.2% percentile (ranked #148) with 917 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 941 births per million (ranked 69.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Angelo ranks #286 for boys (68.7% percentile) with 608 births per million, which is 64.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Angelo reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #724) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Angelo".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Angelo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.8% confident that Angelo is pronounced as AN-juh-loh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-jeh-loh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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