Angela · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Angela.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1918

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 80 recorded years as a table

Angela, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1918	5
1920	8
1921	7
1922	7
1923	5
1924	4
1925	4
1926	5
1927	7
1928	6
1929	7
1930	9
1932	8
1937	7
1938	10
1941	4
1942	4
1943	6
1944	4
1945	4
1946	4
1950	3
1951	3
1952	4
1953	6
1954	4
1955	2
1956	5
1957	6
1958	8
1959	10
1960	10
1961	11
1962	13
1963	17
1964	22
1965	22
1966	27
1967	37
1968	29
1969	27
1970	45
1971	52
1972	43
1973	47
1974	57
1975	58
1976	37
1977	45
1978	44
1979	41
1980	33
1981	29
1982	31
1983	20
1984	32
1985	23
1986	23
1987	26
1988	17
1989	27
1990	15
1991	9
1992	8
1993	5
1994	5
1995	4
1996	7
1997	8
1998	6
1999	6
2000	5
2001	6
2002	4
2003	6
2004	5
2005	5
2006	4
2007	3
2008	4

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Angela isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Angela

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2008: 8
Rank in 2008: #9,019
How rare: 1 in 255,018 boys
Since 1918: 2,135

Angela was last recorded in 2008. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1975, at 58 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Angela doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.