Angus
Angus is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 68 births. Its best rank was 365th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 680.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2006126 births
- Best rank
- #365in 1882
- Since 1880
- 6,692people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,692 boys have been named Angus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 126 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 2000s alone account for 16%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Angus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 155 | |
| 1890s | 143 | |
| 1900s | 128 | |
| 1910s | 496 | |
| 1920s | 660 | |
| 1930s | 394 | |
| 1940s | 405 | |
| 1950s | 345 | |
| 1960s | 284 | |
| 1970s | 307 | |
| 1980s | 360 | |
| 1990s | 754 | |
| 2000s | 1,042 | |
| 2010s | 856 | |
| 2020s | 363 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Angus was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Angus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mosespeak 2016
- Oscarpeak 2006
- Baxterpeak 2014
- Edgarpeak 2005
- Eliepeak 2009
- Alonzopeak 2022
- Hamiltonpeak 2016
- Antonpeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.