In 2025, 17 US girls were named Angelita, making it the 6,566th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,533 places from #5,033 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 26 girls named Angelita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #578, reached in 1932. The most girls given the name in a single year was 182, in 1975. For comparison, it was #4,599 in 2015 and #751 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Angelita in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 8 babies. In all, 11,739 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,601 babies named Angelita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 244 US girls were named Angelita; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Angeletta and Angeleta are summarised on this page.