Is Angel a male or female name?
Angel is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 95% and male usage in United States at 72%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 81%
- Sample size
- 588,679
- Confidence
- high
Angel by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 72% | 360,583 | ssa |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 202,742 | ine |
| France FR | male | 89% | 9,620 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | female | 95% | 9,134 | ons |
| Canada CA | female | 78% | 4,345 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 91% | 1,245 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 84% | 517 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | female | 98% | 397 | cso |
| Austria AT | unknown | 50% | 96 | statat |
Attested in 68 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AG · AT · AU · BB · BD · BE · BG · BI · BU · BW · BZ · CA · CB · CH · CM · CY · DM · ER · ES · FJ · FR · GB · GD · GH · GY · IE · IN · JM · KE · KI · KN · LC · LR · LS · MD · ME · MH · MK · MT · MU · MW · NA · NG · NR · NZ · PE · PG · PH · PL · PW · RS · RW · SB · SC · SE · SL · SZ · TO · TT · TV · UG · US · VC · VU · WS · ZA · ZM · ZW
Angel over time
In the United States, 16.3% of the babies named Angel in the 1910s were girls, against 11.5% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Angel in the 1900s were girls, against 23% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 0% | 255 | |
| 1910s | 16% | 467 | 1% | 355 |
| 1920s | 13% | 1,258 | 0% | 610 |
| 1930s | 13% | 1,251 | 0% | 520 |
| 1940s | 21% | 1,746 | 0% | 370 |
| 1950s | 20% | 5,317 | 0% | 425 |
| 1960s | 38% | 11,935 | 0% | 860 |
| 1970s | 60% | 28,002 | 0% | 410 |
| 1980s | 51% | 32,540 | 0% | 110 |
| 1990s | 34% | 56,488 | 14% | 385 |
| 2000s | 21% | 119,732 | 16% | 2,525 |
| 2010s | 16% | 74,461 | 19% | 2,100 |
| 2020s | 12% | 27,298 | 23% | 695 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Angel with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Angel&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Angel
Is Angel a male or female name?
Angel is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 95% and male usage in United States at 72%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Angel change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Angel identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.