Tangelia
Tangelia was last recorded in 1989, when 7 babies were given it; 284 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tangelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tangelia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,715, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1972, the peak
Tangelia peaked in 1972, when 29 girls were given it, #2,514 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | #10,715 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,853 | 7.1 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,322 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,983 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,970 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,893 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,484 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,042 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,926 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,678 | 12.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 15 | #4,143 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,514 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,638 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,736 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,394 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,760 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,950 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,718 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,450 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,966 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,242 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,235 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,782 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,638 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tangelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tangelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tangelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tangelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Tangelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 50 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 240 people named Tangelia (239 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,220 babies since 1880, Tangelia is the second most given (6.7% of them).
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 Tangelia
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 Tangelia and names like it
- Compare Tangelia and TangelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTangelia peaked in 1972.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tangelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Tangelia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tangelia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.