Angie
Angie was the 705th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 399 babies. Its best year was 1975, when it ranked 140th with 1,948 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 116 places. More babies were named Angie in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Meaning pet form of Angela, 'angel, messenger' · Latin, Greek, English
Say it AN-jee /ˈændʒi/
- Rank in 2025
- #705 girls, down 52 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 399girls
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 19751,948 babies
- Total since 1880
- 65,796babies recorded
What does the name Angie mean?
Angie is a pet form of Angela, made by adding -ie, as Wiktionary notes. Angela comes from Latin angelus, angel or messenger, which DMNES gives as its source. DMNES records Angela in medieval England, Italy and Spain. The Latin word also gave English angel. Angie has been used as a given name in the US since 1880, and German has borrowed it from English.
angelus (Latin, “angel, messenger”)
How sure is this? Well established.
Related names: Angela, Angelica, Angelina, Angel.
See also: Latin names.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Angie' (English section), Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0; facts restated, no text reused)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, ed. S. L. Uckelman, Edition 2023 no. 1, s.v. 'Angela', DMNES (Durham University)
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th ed., entry 'angel' (etymology), HarperCollins / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data 1880-2025 (yob*.txt), team3 computation of first year recorded, US Social Security Administration (public domain)
Angie popularity since 1880
A few boys are given the name too: 131 since 1939.
| Year | Rank (girls) | Babies (girls) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #705 | 399 |
| 2020 | #653 | 442 |
| 2010 | #418 | 755 |
| 2000 | #500 | 540 |
| 1990 | #585 | 395 |
| 1980 | #248 | 1,044 |
| 1970 | #242 | 1,295 |
| 1960 | #292 | 991 |
| 1950 | #527 | 244 |
| 1940 | #444 | 236 |
| 1930 | #451 | 222 |
| 1920 | #523 | 181 |
| 1910 | #424 | 87 |
| 1900 | #399 | 69 |
| 1890 | #343 | 56 |
| 1880 | #254 | 36 |
How popular is Angie, counting every spelling?
Angie is the most common spelling of a name family that ranked #697 for girls in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #705 for Angie on its own. Together these spellings went to 410 girls in 2025.
| Spelling | Babies 2025 | Official rank | Babies 2021–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angie | 399 | #705 | 2,085 |
| Angy | 11 | #8,918 | 58 |
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Angie?
399 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Angie (0.11 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Angie born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 21 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Angie.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Angie?
About 54,300 people born in the US named Angie are alive today, with a median age of 48; half are between 23 and 59. That makes Angie mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties. The wide spread shows a name popular in two different eras.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Angie by state
How common Angie was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Maryland (4.0×), Virginia (2.5×), Florida (2.3×), New Jersey (1.7×), Georgia (1.6×). It is least common, relative to the national rate, in Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Angie: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Angie, they share its era and feel.
Middle names for Angie · Sibling names for Angie
Angie is also a nickname for Angela, Angelina, Angelica, Angeline and Angelique.
Questions about the name Angie
What does Angie mean?
Angie means “pet form of Angela, 'angel, messenger'” (Latin, Greek, English origin). Certainty: well established.
How popular is the name Angie?
Angie was the 705th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 399 babies. Its best year was 1975, when it ranked 140th with 1,948 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 116 places. More babies were named Angie in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Is Angie a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Angie in the US.
Where is Angie most popular?
In 2021–2025, Angie was most common in Maryland (1.04 per 1,000 girls), followed by Virginia and Florida.