Anjel
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 74.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,188since 1954
Anjel over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,570 | 22 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | — | #4,226 | 24 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | — | #3,497 | 30 | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #2,062 | 64 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #1,983 | 63 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #2,741 | 38 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #1,764 | 68 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | — | #4,167 | 13 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anjel! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Anjel
- 1,774 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #8,243)
- 2,544 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #8,243)
- 4,361 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2003 at #1,764 (68 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,049 boys born in 2003 were named Anjel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.1% of all boys named Anjel (500) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1988, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,827 (1954) | #3,827 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,065 (1961) | #4,065 |
| 1970s | 41 | #3,445 (1973) | #4,866 |
| 1980s | 57 | #3,201 (1987) | #5,238 |
| 1990s | 194 | #2,838 (1996) | #3,502 |
| 2000s | 500 | #1,764 (2003) | #2,389 |
| 2010s | 297 | #2,402 (2010) | #3,844 |
| 2020s | 89 | #4,570 (2022) | #6,114 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anjel in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 250,430 of them was named Anjel, which outranked 33.5% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,581Zoraya8
- #9,581Zoua8
- #9,581Zykia8
- #10,567Anjel7
- #10,567Aaliyha7
- #10,567Aarianna7
- #10,567Aarionna7
- #11,807Aalayah6
- #11,807Aamna6
- #11,807Aarthi6
Tied with 1,239 names at #10,567; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 72,858 of them was named Anjel, which outranked 73.1% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,747Ulisses27
- #2,747Whitney27
- #2,747Yasin27
- #2,838Anjel26
- #2,838Aaren26
- #2,838Allante26
- #2,838Amadeo26
- #2,911Adel25
- #2,911Alaric25
- #2,911Aleczander25
Tied with 72 names at #2,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.