Angel — #63 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Angel

The Social Security Administration has registered 261,068 babies named Angel between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Angel currently holds the #63 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 11,602 babies received it in a single year. Angel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99,715 additional births since 1894.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Angel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 94,331 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Angel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 77,494 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Angel in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Angel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 261,068 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.