Milagros
Milagros was given to 137 girls in 2025, #1,545 among girls’ names; 10,479 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,790 Americans named Milagros and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 16 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milagros by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Milagros mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Milagros is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “miracles” (milagros).
milagros (“miracles”), shortened from María (de los) Milagros, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as “Our Lady of Miracles”.
/miˈlaɡɾos/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Milagros?
#1,545 among girls’ names, 2025
Milagros fell from #1,290 in 2015 to #1,545 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.09 per 1,000.
409 babies in 2008, the peak
Milagros peaked in 2008, when 409 girls were given it, #729 among girls’ names. The 137 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,545 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 185 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 168 | #1,346 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 153 | #1,453 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 146 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,629 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,872 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,808 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,765 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,510 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 187 | #1,290 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 169 | #1,374 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 208 | #1,159 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 204 | #1,203 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 259 | #987 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 259 | #980 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 366 | #777 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 409 | #729 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,586 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,587 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 161 | #1,352 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 166 | #1,292 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 167 | #1,255 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 204 | #1,050 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,352 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,875 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,747 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,969 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,033 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,872 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 56 | #2,354 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,011 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,910 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,820 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 87 | #1,694 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,806 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,707 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,628 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,672 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,650 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,659 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 95 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 104 | #1,227 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 90 | #1,369 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 92 | #1,359 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,441 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,256 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 115 | #1,130 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 125 | #1,055 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 124 | #1,014 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 108 | #1,089 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,112 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 110 | #1,057 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 109 | #1,061 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 122 | #1,017 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 164 | #836 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 145 | #870 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 151 | #829 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 157 | #799 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 154 | #798 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 176 | #755 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 185 | #766 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 167 | #804 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 164 | #819 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 133 | #934 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 162 | #820 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 168 | #787 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 163 | #785 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 145 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 162 | #770 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 122 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 132 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 90 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 92 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 74 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 62 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,951 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,502 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,868 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milagros a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milagros has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 90 years of records.
Girls and boys named Milagros: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milagros, and how old are they?
9,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 10,479 Americans ever recorded as Milagros. The median Milagros alive today is 30 years old; half are between 16 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 22,183 people named Milagros (22,065 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 38 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,740 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
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 Milagros born?
The states with the most babies named Milagros are Texas, California and Florida, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | #1,025 | 1.2× |
| California | 27 | #1,016 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,510 | 1.3× |
| New York | 8 | #1,617 | 5.2× |
| Washington | 7 | #878 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,353 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,608 | 0.4× |
Where Milagros is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Milagros is most over-represented in New York: since 1933 it was given 5.2 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 Milagros 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 Milagros
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 Milagros and names like it
- Compare Milagros and SilvanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMilagros peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milagros since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Milagros: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Milagros.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Milagros alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.