Recorded 1885–2025 · United States
Refugio was most popular in 1927, when 106 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,276 that year. In 2025 it ranked #17,163, with 9 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,847 people named Refugio.
Refugio first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1885, which makes it about 140 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 129 of the 141 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,847 American births named Refugio between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,445 are estimated to be alive today.
9 American babies were named Refugio in 2025, ranking #17,163 that year.
Refugio is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 10 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Refugio is mostly a boy’s name — 17.8% of the 4,847 Americans given it were girls and 82.2% were boys. It changed hands: since 1919 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 2,445 Americans named Refugio are alive today — 50% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 36 and 70. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org