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Refugio

boys’ name · 82%girls’ name · 18%RisingCompare

Refugio is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 795th, in 1927.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
120.00% of boys
Peak year
192770 births
Best rank
#795in 1927
Since 1885
4,837people given the name
Babies named Refugio, by year of birthboysgirls
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The story in the numbers

3,974 boys have been named Refugio in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 70 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Refugio is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (863), most of them born around 1920.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Refugio
1880s5
1900s31
1910s248
1920s545
1930s454
1940s483
1950s413
1960s334
1970s424
1980s390
1990s321
2000s207
2010s81
2020s38

In 1927, its biggest year

Refugio was the 795th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1927 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1927.

Names that rose and fell with Refugio

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.