Angle
Angle was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,279 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Angle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 31 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Angle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Angle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,499, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1971, the peak
Angle peaked in 1971, when 57 babies were given it (51 girls, #1,754 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,377 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,499 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,323 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,116 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,464 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,336 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,037 | 5 | #12,603 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,882 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,334 | 7 | #9,832 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,519 | 6 | #10,747 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #11,920 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,859 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,553 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,412 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,194 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,321 | 9 | #6,866 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,679 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,566 | 5 | #9,693 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,644 | 10 | #5,658 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,540 | 5 | #9,076 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,027 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,127 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,830 | 9 | #5,779 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,730 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,961 | 5 | #8,278 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,124 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,523 | 6 | #6,977 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,308 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,480 | 7 | #5,475 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,736 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,942 | 7 | #5,167 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,235 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,817 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,344 | 5 | #6,412 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,727 | 5 | #6,318 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,725 | 7 | #4,957 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,796 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,391 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,028 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,390 | 5 | #5,625 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,783 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,397 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,459 | 5 | #5,131 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,892 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,754 | 6 | #4,396 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,861 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,919 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,877 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,662 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,942 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,206 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,678 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,790 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,323 | 5 | #4,084 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,727 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,640 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,570 | |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,545 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,584 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Angle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,279 Americans recorded as Angle, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Angle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Angle, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,279 Americans ever recorded as Angle. The median Angle alive today is 44 years old; half are between 31 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 2,197 people named Angle (1,042 women and girls, 1,155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 490 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 378 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 251 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 688,399 babies since 1880, Angle is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 925 babies recorded by SSA was a Angle (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Angle
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 Angle and names like it
- Compare Angle and AngelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAngle peaked in 1971.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Angle since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Angle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Angle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.