Tangela
Recorded 1956–2011 · United States
Tangela was most popular in 1971, when 193 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,325 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,784 people named Tangela.
Tangela over time
How old is the name Tangela?
Tangela first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1956, which makes it about 69 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 54 of the 70 years since. It was last recorded in 2011.
How many people are named Tangela?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,784 American births named Tangela between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,567 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tangela in 2025?
Tangela was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Tangela getting more or less popular?
Tangela is out of use. It averaged 8 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Tangela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tangela is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,784 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Tangela?
Roughly 3,567 Americans named Tangela are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 43 and 57.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Tangela is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org