Angeles
Feminine · “angels”
Angeles is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 3,421 girls against 77 boys since 1880.
Angeles is Spanish for angels, and it names a specific devotion: Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, Our Lady of the Angels — the title that also gave a Californian city its name.
How old is the name Angeles?
Angeles first appears in US birth records in 1932 — 93 years ago. The typical Angeles alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 3,400 people named Angeles are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Angeles most popular?
Angeles peaked in 2003, reaching #930 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 2,647 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From angelos to Angeles
The story of Angeles
Spanish naming draws heavily on Marian titles, and Ángeles is among the most used — María de los Ángeles shortened to Ángeles for daily life. The same title named the settlement founded in California in 1781, whose full name was considerably longer than the two words that survive. The given name reaches American records with Mexican and Spanish families and is often written without its accent.
Meaning
angels
The plural of Spanish ángel, from Greek angelos, a messenger; the name comes from the Marian title rather than from the word directly, and María de los Ángeles is the full traditional form.
How the name formed
- angelos
- ángeles
- Angeles
Related forms: Ángeles · Angela · Anjos
Pronouncing Angeles
AHN-heh-les
Three syllables, first stressed, with the Spanish g as a throat sound. Americans say AN-juh-lees.
Nicknames for Angeles
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1932
- Most girls named
- 2004245 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #930reached in 2003
- Change vs 2023
- +7.7%42 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Angeles in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ángeles in Spanish — same name
- Angela in Italian — related form
- Anjos in Portuguese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Angeless among us
people named Angeles are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Angeles
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Candyce test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Angeles's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Candyce climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Candyce's path sketches the road Angeles is walking now.
Angeles sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Angeles is headed
Angeles should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Angeles beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Angeles in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning tied to one specific and much-loved devotion.
- Angie is a warm short form already familiar to every English speaker.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- The Spanish and English pronunciations differ at the g entirely.
- The accent will be dropped by American systems, which moves the stress.
- The California city shares the name, which invites a question about a connection.
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Feminine · #3577 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Angeless are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,400 people named Angeles are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Angeles in 2025?
- Angeles ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Angeles?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Angeles — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Angeles with classmates?
- Angeles will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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