Angelica
Angelica was given to 398 girls in 2025, #708 among girls’ names; 93,538 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 90,100 Americans named Angelica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Angelica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Angelica mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Angelica is “a female given name from Italian.”
Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Angelica?
#708 among girls’ names, 2025
Angelica fell from #423 in 2015 to #708 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.42 to 0.25 per 1,000.
3,412 babies in 1996, the peak
Angelica peaked in 1996, when 3,412 babies were given it (3,404 girls, #97 among girls’ names). The 398 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 398 | #708 | 0.25 |
| 2024 | 481 | #619 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 463 | #634 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 450 | #658 | 0.27 |
| 2021 | 497 | #599 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 511 | #572 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 514 | #591 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 567 | #546 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 576 | #538 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 624 | #500 | 0.35 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 756 | #423 | 0.42 |
| 2014 | 737 | #434 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 734 | #412 | 0.42 |
| 2012 | 837 | #373 | 0.48 |
| 2011 | 867 | #369 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 932 | #346 | 0.52 |
| 2009 | 1,128 | #292 | 0.61 |
| 2008 | 1,337 | #258 | 0.71 |
| 2007 | 1,516 | #232 | 0.79 |
| 2006 | 1,669 | #206 | 0.88 |
| 2005 | 1,788 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,941 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,213 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 2,273 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 2,435 | #136 | 1.4 |
| 2000 | 2,395 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 2,821 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1998 | 3,183 | #109 | 1.8 |
| 1997 | 3,381 | #101 | 1.9 |
| 1996 | 3,404 | #97 | 1.9 |
| 1995 | 3,357 | #101 | 1.9 |
| 1994 | 3,078 | #108 | 1.7 |
| 1993 | 3,242 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 1992 | 3,324 | #100 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 2,823 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 1990 | 2,717 | #119 | 1.4 |
| 1989 | 2,876 | #107 | 1.6 |
| 1988 | 2,612 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 2,601 | #106 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 2,146 | #130 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 1,542 | #176 | 0.90 |
| 1984 | 1,380 | #194 | 0.82 |
| 1983 | 1,464 | #186 | 0.88 |
| 1982 | 1,498 | #183 | 0.88 |
| 1981 | 1,502 | #183 | 0.90 |
| 1980 | 1,455 | #184 | 0.88 |
| 1979 | 1,305 | #204 | 0.81 |
| 1978 | 1,146 | #219 | 0.75 |
| 1977 | 1,133 | #220 | 0.74 |
| 1976 | 1,211 | #200 | 0.83 |
| 1975 | 1,210 | #201 | 0.83 |
| 1974 | 1,062 | #240 | 0.72 |
| 1973 | 771 | #302 | 0.53 |
| 1972 | 666 | #339 | 0.44 |
| 1971 | 640 | #370 | 0.38 |
| 1970 | 591 | #400 | 0.34 |
| 1969 | 398 | #486 | 0.24 |
| 1968 | 315 | #541 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 313 | #532 | 0.19 |
| 1966 | 247 | #602 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 247 | #619 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 240 | #658 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 187 | #753 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 148 | #867 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 147 | #880 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 127 | #946 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 123 | #943 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 93 | #1,088 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 90 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 88 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 96 | #1,025 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 87 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 77 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 43 | #1,409 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,418 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,415 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,419 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,441 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,471 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,488 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,487 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,973 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,738 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,464 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Angelica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Angelica has been given almost only to girls: 321 boys in 123 years of records.
Girls and boys named Angelica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Angelica, and how old are they?
90,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 93,538 Americans ever recorded as Angelica. The median Angelica alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 117,165 people named Angelica (117,006 women and girls, 159 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88,225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 177 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 30,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,260 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Angelica born?
The states with the most babies named Angelica are Texas, California and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #448 | 1.9× |
| California | 60 | #542 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 44 | #427 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #449 | 1.0× |
| New York | 16 | #948 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 13 | #516 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 11 | #803 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #821 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #983 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 9 | #527 | 0.4× |
Where Angelica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Angelica is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Angelica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 97,768 babies since 1880, Angelica is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 398 of their 412 babies (97%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Angelica
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Angelica and names like it
- Compare Angelica and AngelikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAngelica peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Angelica since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Angelica: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Angelica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Angelica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.