Milagros

Where Milagros comes from

Milagros hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #3,753 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Milagros Cabral born
    female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic
  3. 1980
    Milagros Sequera born
    Venezuelan tennis player
  4. 2008
    Peak, #728
    409 babies named Milagros — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,201.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Milagros Sequera · Venezuelan tennis player, born 1980
  • Milagros Cabral · female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, born 1978
  • Milagros Menéndez · Argentinian association football player, born 1997
  • Milagros Leal · Spanish actress, 1902–1975
  • Milagros Collar · Spanish volleyball player, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.