Milagro
Milagro is given to both girls and boys: 43 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,557 among girls’ names and #13,259 among boys’, #5,800 among all names counting both); 1,909 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Milagro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 10 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milagro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Milagro mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Milagro is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “miracle” (milagro).
milagro (“miracle”), probably shortened from Milagros.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Milagro?
#3,557 among girls’ names, 2025
Milagro rose from #5,406 in 2015 to #3,557 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 26.8 per million.
78 babies in 2024, the peak
Milagro peaked in 2024, when 78 girls were given it, #2,357 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,557 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,357 | 48.1 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,811 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,987 | 34.1 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,598 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,819 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,765 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,307 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,528 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,323 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,406 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,078 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,434 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,091 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,433 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,156 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,994 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,147 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,186 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,429 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,780 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,779 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,167 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,243 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,643 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,256 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,615 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,706 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,327 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,691 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,942 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,469 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,643 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,902 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,434 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,183 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,206 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,071 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,230 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,471 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,580 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,150 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,691 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,861 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,696 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,665 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,019 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,399 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,832 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,526 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,501 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,230 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,088 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,663 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,332 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,172 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,909 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,841 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,756 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,746 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,515 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,825 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,575 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,785 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,452 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,069 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,374 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,188 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,858 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,277 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,691 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,182 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,404 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,023 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,906 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milagro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,909 Americans recorded as Milagro, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Milagro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milagro, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,909 Americans ever recorded as Milagro. The median Milagro alive today is 24 years old; half are between 10 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 4,516 people named Milagro (4,424 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,542 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Milagro rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 164 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 244 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 507 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 565 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Milagro born?
The states with the most babies named Milagro are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,683 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,834 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,309 | 1.7× |
Where Milagro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Milagro is most over-represented in New York: since 1951 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Milagro with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Milagro
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Milagro and names like it
- Compare Milagro and DevoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMilagro peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milagro since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Milagro: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Milagro.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Milagro alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.