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Angelita

#6,565 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Angela

Angelita has been given to 11,739 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #6,565 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 182 recorded.

Babies named Angelita, 2025

1 in 195,000

Angelita over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Angelita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Angela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Angelita means

Angelita is a diminutive of Angela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Angelita → Angela. The family’s meaning is “messenger, angel”, recorded in English with the source elements ángelos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Angela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,702 girls were recorded with the name Angelita between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 182 in 1975; its best national rank was #578 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,761 in 2020 to #6,565 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,598 in 2015 to #6,565 in 2025.

In the United States, 37 boys were recorded with the name Angelita between 1928 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1928; its best national rank was #2,982 in 1934.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Angelita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,565
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Angelita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Angelita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Angelitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Angelita was born before 1963 — so the typical Angelita is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
13.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,641
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (1,601).

Is Angelita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,535
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,804
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,967
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.3%
Peak was 1975 (182)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#578
1932

Spellings of Angelita

Angelita is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 67.7% against Angelita's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Angelita is used

Across 1910–2025, Angelita was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 2,041 girls, against 1 in 12,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

049 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 2,041
  2. 2Texas1 in 2,381
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 5,000
  4. 4California1 in 10,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Angelita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Angelita around the world

Where Angelita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1939–1996
    #3,754
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1965–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Angelita

People whose public names include Angelita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Angelita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,565
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,804
Best rank ever
#578
1932
Peak year
1975
182 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,702
Count in 2025
17

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,982
1934
Peak year
1928
8 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Angelita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AngelineAngeliaAngelikaAngeliqueAngelicAngellaAngelesAngelicaAngelynAngelinaAngelieTeresitaCarmelitaAngelenaMarquitaAngeliseAngelisaNikitaAngelyAngeleeBenitaLolitaAngeleneChiquita

Names with a curve like Angelita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Angelita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CarmelitaJosefinaThomasRichardLucretiaFranciscaImeldaJamesKathrineThomasinaRobertElida

Sibling names for Angelita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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