girls:
863 births since 1890
#4853 (15th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1885
#1957 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1885
#3923 (49th percentile)
The name Refugio is the #3,923 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,825 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 49.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,957 (57.3% percentile) for all time with 3,962 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #4,853 (15.1% percentile) for all time with 863 births since 1890.
Refugio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1890 for girls). Birth data for Refugio is available in 127 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 72 years for girls). 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 Refugio has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Refugio were boys.
For boys, Refugio reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 12.1% percentile (ranked #474) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 60 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Refugio ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Refugio reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #574) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Refugio".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Refugio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.4% confident that Refugio is pronounced as reh-FYUE-jee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-FYUE-jee-oh, at 21.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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