Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 28% girls / 72% boys
Origin: EnglishAngel is a given name meaning "angel". In the English-speaking world Angel is used for both boys and girls. Angel is from the medieval Latin masculine name Angelus, which was derived from the name of the heavenly creature.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Angel yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Angel's count and rank peaked in the exact same year, 2006 — 11,602 births and #31 nationally — a tidy simultaneous peak, matching the pattern seen in Cameron and Isaiah.
Since then the fall has been sharp in rank terms: down to #63 by 2024, even though the raw-count decline, 21% over the decade, looks comparatively mild next to a name like Abigail's 55% drop.
First recorded in 1888, just eight years into the dataset, Angel's famous-bearer list leans international and contemporary — footballer Angel Gomes, actor Angel Coulby — without any older reference point anchoring the name the way Charles's centuries-old namesakes do.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 8 | #757 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,007 |
| 1891 | 5 | #976 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,111 |
| 1899 | 7 | #860 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,170 |
| 1907 | 9 | #933 |
| 1908 | 9 | #949 |
| 1909 | 10 | #952 |
| 1910 | 13 | #862 |
| 1911 | 12 | #983 |
| 1912 | 26 | #876 |
| 1913 | 30 | #898 |
| 1914 | 37 | #899 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,182 |
| 1916 | 63 | #772 |
| 1917 | 55 | #860 |
| 1918 | 55 | #894 |
| 1919 | 70 | #775 |
| 1920 | 85 | #699 |
| 1921 | 70 | #815 |
| 1922 | 90 | #686 |
| 1923 | 82 | #718 |
| 1924 | 112 | #603 |
| 1925 | 122 | #559 |
| 1926 | 130 | #533 |
| 1927 | 131 | #536 |
| 1928 | 136 | #517 |
| 1929 | 131 | #512 |
| 1930 | 166 | #459 |
| 1931 | 107 | #570 |
| 1932 | 125 | #515 |
| 1933 | 100 | #577 |
| 1934 | 119 | #539 |
| 1935 | 94 | #598 |
| 1936 | 97 | #586 |
| 1937 | 103 | #567 |
| 1938 | 91 | #622 |
| 1939 | 86 | #636 |
| 1940 | 90 | #626 |
| 1941 | 107 | #575 |
| 1942 | 106 | #611 |
| 1943 | 117 | #587 |
| 1944 | 114 | #575 |
| 1945 | 125 | #534 |
| 1946 | 137 | #545 |
| 1947 | 171 | #518 |
| 1948 | 225 | #442 |
| 1949 | 185 | #486 |
| 1950 | 234 | #435 |
| 1951 | 277 | #410 |
| 1952 | 313 | #388 |
| 1953 | 328 | #385 |
| 1954 | 441 | #339 |
| 1955 | 433 | #347 |
| 1956 | 496 | #334 |
| 1957 | 571 | #320 |
| 1958 | 529 | #334 |
| 1959 | 602 | #317 |
| 1960 | 664 | #299 |
| 1961 | 669 | #297 |
| 1962 | 696 | #294 |
| 1963 | 647 | #309 |
| 1964 | 697 | #300 |
| 1965 | 722 | #278 |
| 1966 | 766 | #262 |
| 1967 | 772 | #259 |
| 1968 | 833 | #248 |
| 1969 | 938 | #241 |
| 1970 | 1,035 | #229 |
| 1971 | 1,001 | #236 |
| 1972 | 955 | #225 |
| 1973 | 1,049 | #206 |
| 1974 | 1,111 | #198 |
| 1975 | 1,092 | #201 |
| 1976 | 1,139 | #197 |
| 1977 | 1,244 | #189 |
| 1978 | 1,249 | #189 |
| 1979 | 1,304 | #185 |
| 1980 | 1,418 | #172 |
| 1981 | 1,300 | #194 |
| 1982 | 1,442 | #181 |
| 1983 | 1,349 | #185 |
| 1984 | 1,418 | #179 |
| 1985 | 1,561 | #172 |
| 1986 | 1,651 | #163 |
| 1987 | 1,654 | #165 |
| 1988 | 1,828 | #151 |
| 1989 | 2,176 | #140 |
| 1990 | 2,406 | #133 |
| 1991 | 2,685 | #123 |
| 1992 | 3,049 | #114 |
| 1993 | 3,036 | #115 |
| 1994 | 3,477 | #104 |
| 1995 | 3,734 | #101 |
| 1996 | 3,912 | #102 |
| 1997 | 4,514 | #86 |
| 1998 | 4,772 | #81 |
| 1999 | 5,402 | #73 |
| 2000 | 6,306 | #67 |
| 2001 | 6,978 | #58 |
| 2002 | 8,192 | #49 |
| 2003 | 9,161 | #47 |
| 2004 | 9,516 | #44 |
| 2005 | 10,993 | #32 |
| 2006 | 11,602 | #31 |
| 2007 | 11,376 | #34 |
| 2008 | 10,356 | #36 |
| 2009 | 9,851 | #37 |
| 2010 | 8,776 | #42 |
| 2011 | 7,536 | #52 |
| 2012 | 7,024 | #57 |
| 2013 | 6,369 | #67 |
| 2014 | 6,313 | #67 |
| 2015 | 6,114 | #64 |
| 2016 | 5,561 | #70 |
| 2017 | 5,274 | #71 |
| 2018 | 5,064 | #72 |
| 2019 | 4,914 | #73 |
| 2020 | 4,524 | #76 |
| 2021 | 4,716 | #67 |
| 2022 | 5,098 | #62 |
| 2023 | 4,890 | #63 |
| 2024 | 4,964 | #63 |
