girls:
1.3k births since 1883
#4434 (22nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1926
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1883
#6448 (17th percentile)
The name Refugia is the #6,448 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,294 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,434 (22.4% percentile) for all time with 1,289 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1926.
Refugia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1926 for boys). Birth data for Refugia is available in 76 out of the 105 years between 1883 and 1987 (76 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Refugia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Refugia reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #568) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 45 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
For boys, Refugia reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #551) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Refugia".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Refugia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Refugia is pronounced as reh-FYUE-jee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is reh-FUE-juh, at 19.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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