Refugio
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Refugio | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 31 | |
| 1910s | 248 | |
| 1920s | 545 | |
| 1930s | 454 | |
| 1940s | 483 | |
| 1950s | 413 | |
| 1960s | 334 | |
| 1970s | 424 | |
| 1980s | 390 | |
| 1990s | 321 | |
| 2000s | 207 | |
| 2010s | 81 | |
| 2020s | 38 |
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.
- Margaritopeak 1928
- Florenciopeak 1924
- Seferinopeak 1952
- Ciprianopeak 1930
- Ysidropeak 1922
- Phillipspeak 1949
- Porfiriopeak 1921
- Domingopeak 1946
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.