In 2025, 1,124 US boys were named Angelo, making it the 304th most common boys’ name of the year, down 18 places from #286 in 2024. That is 49 fewer than the 1,173 boys named Angelo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #146, reached in 1916. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,338, in 2007. For comparison, it was #299 in 2015 and #325 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Angelo in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 86,956 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 11,821 babies named Angelo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,735 US boys were named Angelo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,173. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,520 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Angelo ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #119 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Angel (366,174 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Angello, Arcangelo and Angelou are summarised on this page.