Girls' name · peaked in 1970

Angelique name popularity since 1925

30,165 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Angelique. Half of them were born in 1994 or earlier, so the typical Angelique is about 32 years old in 2026. Angelique peaked in 1970 as the #301 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 30,165; Named Angelique, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1970; #301 for girls that year
Typical age: About 32; Median birth year 1994
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,193 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 30,159 girls · 6 boys
Most popular in: New Mexico; 3.57× its national share

Peak year is the year Angelique made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Angelique births per year, 1925–2025

1970 was the biggest year for Angelique both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1963 and 1968, Angelique became 8.5× more common, from 1 in 18,400 baby girls to 1 in 2,150.
Steepest fall: Between 2014 and 2019, its share of baby girls fell by 66%, from 1 in 2,310 to 1 in 6,880.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Angelique's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Angelique.

Decade by decade

Babies named Angelique in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	18	0	#4,585
1950s	333	0	#1,464
1960s	2,401	0	#868
1970s	6,139	6	#375
1980s	3,693	0	#589
1990s	5,661	0	#469
2000s	5,155	0	#667
2010s	5,243	0	#569
2020–25	1,516	0	#1,193

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

29.7% of babies named Angelique from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Angelique is most popular

The index compares Angelique's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Angelique.

State	Index	Babies
New Mexico	3.57×	537
Arizona	2.71×	954
California	2.03×	5,847
Louisiana	1.51×	737
Colorado	1.50×	504

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Angelique's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Angelique.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Angelique (1970).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data