Angelita

Where Angelita comes from

Angelita hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1868
    Angelita Helena Maria de Silva Ferro born
    actress
  2. 1883
    First appearance
    #692 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1932
    Peak, #578
    129 babies named Angelita — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1959
    Angelita Lind born
    Puerto Rican Olympic runner
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,000.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Angelita Helena Maria de Silva Ferro · actress, 1868–1949
  • Angelita Lind · Puerto Rican Olympic runner, born 1959
  • Angelita Castany · Cuban-born Mexican actress, 1935–2020
  • Angelita Trujillo · Dominican writer, 1939–2023
  • Angelita Morillo · American politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.