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Milagros

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Milagros is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 183 births. Its best rank was 729th, in 2008.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1830.01% of girls
Peak year
2008409 births
Best rank
#729in 2008
Since 1933
10,333people given the name
Babies named Milagros, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

10,333 girls have been named Milagros in the United States since 1933, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 409 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 2000s alone account for 19%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Milagros
1930s27
1940s175
1950s1,210
1960s1,593
1970s1,184
1980s842
1990s764
2000s1,984
2010s1,777
2020s777

In 2008, its biggest year

Milagros was the 729th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.

Names that rose and fell with Milagros

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.