Refugia
Refugia was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 1,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Refugia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Refugia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,733, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1926, the peak
Refugia peaked in 1926, when 46 babies were given it (41 girls, #1,216 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #12,733 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,827 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,751 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,449 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,756 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,811 | 3.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,046 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,207 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,401 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,180 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #7,095 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,999 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,433 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,823 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,745 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,092 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,678 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,065 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,314 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,294 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,189 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,199 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,573 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,514 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,384 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,081 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,486 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,818 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,793 | 17.0 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,940 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,834 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,021 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 17 | #2,006 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,571 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,263 | 31.7 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,438 | 25.7 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,760 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,465 | 25.8 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,376 | 28.1 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,494 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,314 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,277 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,332 | 29.5 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,714 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,216 | 34.6 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,339 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,434 | 27.2 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,225 | 34.0 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,336 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,533 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,658 | 21.7 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,316 | 31.0 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,528 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,546 | 23.1 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,111 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,611 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,526 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,115 | 40.0 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,340 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,358 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,500 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,139 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,333 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,129 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,213 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,090 | 44.6 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,628 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,557 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,198 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,310 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,539 | 26.7 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,151 | 38.4 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,404 | 30.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,496 | 26.3 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,020 | 48.0 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,027 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Refugia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Refugia has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Refugia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Refugia, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Refugia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 67 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 547 people named Refugia (543 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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.
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 Refugia born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 870 | not ranked | 13.5× |
| New Mexico | 5 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Refugia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Refugia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 13.5 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 Refugia 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 Refugia
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 Refugia and names like it
- Compare Refugia and MozellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRefugia peaked in 1926.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Refugia since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Refugia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Refugia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.