Refugia
Refugia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192341 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1883
- 1,289people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,289 girls have been named Refugia in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 41 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 26%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Refugia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 21 | |
| 1900s | 102 | |
| 1910s | 211 | |
| 1920s | 338 | |
| 1930s | 254 | |
| 1940s | 162 | |
| 1950s | 107 | |
| 1960s | 51 | |
| 1970s | 26 | |
| 1980s | 5 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Refugia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Refugia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mozellapeak 1920
- Alberthapeak 1922
- Almetapeak 1924
- Velmapeak 1921
- Veolapeak 1926
- Creolapeak 1920
- Ceolapeak 1924
- Alleanpeak 1924
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.