Argelia

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306

Peak · girls
1973 · 24 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
836
since 1932

Argelia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Argelia has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201932peak #2,830, 1973girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
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2022#15,3065
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2018#15,6825
2017—
2016#12,8767
2015#10,14810
2014#8,96612
2013#16,5475
2012#16,8695
2011#12,1538
2010#11,2469
2009#9,37912
2008#8,10915
2007#8,52014
2006#5,38325
2005#5,43723
2004#8,25913
2003#7,58014
2002#11,1088
2001#6,06718
2000#7,58013
1999#8,22311
1998#7,53212
1997#5,41718
1996#4,58322
1995#5,22118
1994#6,31914
1993#5,67316
1992#3,96826
1991#5,18118
1990#4,23023
1989#5,28616
1988#6,66611
1987#7,3539
1986#6,61210
1985#4,63516
1984#4,31817
1983#4,68615
1982#5,20913
1981#4,96314
1980#4,51716
1979#5,42712
1978#3,09825
1977#3,61220
1976#5,21511
1975#3,77417
1974#4,22714
1973#2,83024
1972#4,09114
1971#3,94315
1970#7,0706
1969#7,4715
1968#5,1478
1967#6,8045
1966—
1965#5,8176
1964#5,0088
1963#3,45814
1962#4,26310
1961#6,5675
1960#3,68812
1959#4,6258
1958#6,1035
1957#4,2029
1956#4,8377
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1954#5,7535
1953#5,6735
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1948#4,2057
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First appearance
1932

The first year at least five girls were named Argelia! It came in at #4,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1932–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Argelia is popular in 1932

No state had 5 or more girls named Argelia in 1932, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Argelia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
Rise & fade · girls
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1932
  • Peaked 1973 at #2,830 (24 births)
  • Births halved by 1976, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 60,759
  • Highest: 1 in 60,759 girls born in 1973 were named Argelia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 328,026 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 21.3% of all girls named Argelia (178) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s11#3,847 (1938)#4,129
1940s14#4,205 (1948)#4,220
1950s44#4,202 (1957)#5,230
1960s73#3,458 (1963)#5,358
1970s158#2,830 (1973)#4,329
1980s137#4,318 (1984)#5,425
1990s178#3,968 (1992)#5,635
2000s155#5,383 (2006)#7,742
2010s61#8,966 (2014)#13,061
2020s5#15,306 (2022)#15,306

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Argelia in 1932

girls
#4,411
5 births · 1 in 213,430 girls

Top girls' names in 1932

  1. #1Mary59,883
  2. #2Betty34,420
  3. #3Barbara26,318
  4. #4Dorothy24,974
  5. #5Joan21,044
  6. #6Patricia17,992
  7. #7Margaret16,556
  8. #8Helen16,376
  9. #9Shirley14,476
  10. #10Doris12,910
  11. #4,411Argelia5
More about 1932

girls

1,067,148 girls got a published name in 1932; 1 in 213,430 of them was named Argelia, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,098 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Argelia
  1. #3,901Yolonda6
  2. #3,901Zenia6
  3. #3,901Zonnie6
  4. #4,411Argelia5
  5. #4,411Abbey5
  6. #4,411Adda5
  7. #4,411Adelita5

Tied with 687 names at #4,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1931
Risers
  1. ↑ 963Dian#1,876 → #913
  2. ↑ 519Carleen#1,394 → #875
  3. ↑ 357Jimmy#1,336 → #979
  4. ↑ 347Letty#1,287 → #940
  5. ↑ 340Letitia#1,148 → #808
Fallers
  1. ↓ 350Blossom#970 → #1,320
  2. ↓ 332Luetta#844 → #1,176
  3. ↓ 305Roy#887 → #1,192
  4. ↓ 289Sofia#887 → #1,176
  5. ↓ 282Joretta#463 → #745

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1932 →