Miracle
Miracle was given to 603 girls in 2025, #492 among girls’ names; 22,006 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,800 Americans named Miracle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miracle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miracle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Miracle is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miracle?
#492 among girls’ names, 2025
Miracle fell from #413 in 2015 to #492 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.44 to 0.38 per 1,000.
902 babies in 2016, the peak
Miracle peaked in 2016, when 902 babies were given it (875 girls, #372 among girls’ names). The 645 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 603 | #492 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 668 | #468 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 725 | #426 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 766 | #411 | 0.47 |
| 2021 | 789 | #404 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 826 | #375 | 0.51 |
| 2019 | 868 | #367 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 833 | #376 | 0.49 |
| 2017 | 850 | #366 | 0.49 |
| 2016 | 875 | #372 | 0.49 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 778 | #413 | 0.44 |
| 2014 | 787 | #408 | 0.44 |
| 2013 | 717 | #426 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 762 | #411 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 606 | #490 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 577 | #518 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 677 | #457 | 0.37 |
| 2008 | 679 | #469 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 716 | #449 | 0.37 |
| 2006 | 660 | #479 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 663 | #459 | 0.36 |
| 2004 | 610 | #483 | 0.33 |
| 2003 | 600 | #486 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 527 | #520 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 524 | #515 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 504 | #524 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 429 | #580 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 366 | #634 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 420 | #557 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 287 | #736 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 225 | #863 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 175 | #1,045 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,167 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 141 | #1,239 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 128 | #1,298 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 96 | #1,577 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 85 | #1,633 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,655 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,870 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,853 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,965 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,720 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,726 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,439 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,147 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,207 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,291 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,778 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,621 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,881 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,068 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,089 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,329 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,409 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,680 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,214 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,749 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,722 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,012 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miracle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,006 Americans recorded as Miracle, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 603 girls and 42 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Miracle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miracle, and how old are they?
21,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,006 Americans ever recorded as Miracle. The median Miracle alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 13,205 people named Miracle (12,784 women and girls, 421 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 256 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,300 |
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 Miracle born?
The states with the most babies named Miracle are Texas, New York and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 69 | #510 | 0.9× |
| New York | 49 | #347 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 42 | #454 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 37 | #275 | 2.2× |
| California | 35 | #851 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 32 | #350 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 25 | #434 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 23 | #215 | 2.0× |
| New Jersey | 23 | #359 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 22 | #214 | 1.9× |
Where Miracle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miracle is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1960 it was given 2.7 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 Miracle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 24,030 babies since 1880, Miracle is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 645 of their 687 babies (94%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Miracle
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 Miracle and names like it
- Compare Miracle and MyracleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMiracle peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miracle since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Miracle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Miracle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.