Angelica

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Angelica: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Angelica: Recorded since 1961, it reached #62 in 2007, and it stood at #368 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
100times a registrar ranked it
65years from first to last
#62highest recorded position
22groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#671
1997	#750
1998	#737
1999	#636
2000	#645
2001	#796
2002	#643
2003	#595
2004	#626
2005	#596
2006	#507
2007	#500
2008	#515
2009	#701
2010	#531
2011	#545
2012	#458
2013	#659
2014	#625
2015	#722
2016	#768
2017	#666
2018	#1035
2019	#737
2020	#720
2021	#1007
2022	#857
2023	#1410
2024	#1198

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 57 of the 65 years from 1961 to 2025.

In 2024: #301 among girls in Norway, #1198 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1961–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1961
First recorded at #467 among girls in Norway in 1961 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1961–2025
Highest recorded position: #62 among girls in Norway, in 2007 (recorded 1961–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #368 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Angelica appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 57 years beginning in 1961, and has registered 1,246 births with the name.

Angelica across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Angelica's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#467 (1961)	#62 (2007)	#368 (2025)	57 of 65	1,246 (1961–2025)	90 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#671 (1996)	#458 (2012)	#1198 (2024)	29 of 29	1,480 (1996–2024)	98 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (2002)	#439 (2003)	#734 (2017)	13 of 16	58 (2002–2017)	7 (2012)

Angelica by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Angelica in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	71	10 of 10	7
1980s	106	10 of 10	11
1990s	115	10 of 10	12
2000sbusiest	504	10 of 10	50
2010s	377	10 of 10	38
2020s	69	6 of 10	12

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 50 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 47, from 37 to 84.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Angelica appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1961 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #62 in Norway in 2007.

Angelica's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1198	28	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#857	41	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#720	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#737	52	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#666	62	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#768	51	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#722	55	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#625	65	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#659	61	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#458	98	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#545	76	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#531	75	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#701	52	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#515	75	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#500	77	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#507	73	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#596	54	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#626	48	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#595	49	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#643	42	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#796	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#645	39	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#636	39	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#750	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#671	35	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#368	8	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#301	12	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#274	14	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#257	15	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#386	7	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#288	13	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#297	13	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#271	16	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#249	20	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#258	20	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#158	38	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#145	43	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#124	49	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#116	59	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#110	62	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#123	57	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#102	70	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#80	90	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#62	90	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#78	84	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#158	37	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#163	35	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#195	28	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#196	26	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#213	23	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#232	21	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#273	15	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#256	17	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#296	13	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#341	11	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#522	6	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#557	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#441	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#269	18	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#335	13	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#431	9	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#414	10	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#437	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#384	11	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#330	14	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#321	14	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#260	17	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#469	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#396	9	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#438	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#610	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#380	9	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#390	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#415	8	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#387	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#534	5	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#475	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#456	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#370	9	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#467	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#560	7	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#665	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1961 and 2025, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #62, first reached in 2007.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 98 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 45 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Angel-Rose · #1865, 18y
Angela · #3, 74y
Angelika · #253, 55y
Angelina · #35, 51y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Theresa · #61, 61y
Bronagh · #60, 61y
Eamonn · #60, 61y
Catriona · #58, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Wesley · #62, 56y
Allison · #63, 61y
Theresa · #61, 61y
Agnieszka · #64, 47y

Angelica was ranked #62 in Norway · Girls in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Angelica and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Angelica without appearing here.

Angelica moved ahead of

Paula Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1007 and #957 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #857 and #1685.
Courtney Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1410 and #1410 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1198 and #1894.
Marie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1410 and #1087 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1198 and #1894.
Sinead Compare
In 2015 they stood at #722 and #722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #768 and #1241.

Moved ahead of Angelica

Amalie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #857 and #940 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1410 and #865.
May Compare
In 2013 they stood at #560 and #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #876 and #353.
Eileen Compare
In 2022 they stood at #857 and #876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1410 and #888.
Mari Compare
In 2022 they stood at #857 and #1180 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1410 and #921.

Moved the opposite way to Angelica

Ann Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Angelica went from #467 to #274 while Ann went from #23 to #404.
Berit Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Angelica went from #467 to #274 while Berit went from #21 to #494.
Gro Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Angelica went from #467 to #274 while Gro went from #27 to #465.
Janne Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Angelica went from #467 to #274 while Janne went from #54 to #469.

Moved the same way as Angelica

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Angelica went from #671 to #1198 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Angelica went from #671 to #1198 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Angelica went from #671 to #1198 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Angelica went from #671 to #1198 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1961 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #62 in Norway in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Angelica

Angelica at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Angelica across 3 official records

Angelica by decade in Norway · Girls

Angelica appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Angelica

Angelica and the names beside it

Angelica moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Angelica

Moved the opposite way to Angelica

Moved the same way as Angelica

Angelica at a glance

Angelica across 3 official records

Angelica by decade in Norway · Girls

Angelica appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Angelica

Angelica and the names beside it

Angelica moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Angelica

Moved the opposite way to Angelica

Moved the same way as Angelica