Milagros
- Pronunciation
- [Mi-la-gros]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Miracle
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Milagros
Milagros is a Spanish name meaning "miracles," drawn from the religious tradition of honoring the Virgin Mary under titles such as Nuestra Señora de los Milagros — Our Lady of Miracles. As a devotional name, it carries deep cultural and spiritual significance across the Spanish-speaking world, expressing gratitude, wonder, and faith in a single graceful word that feels both reverent and joyful.
As a given name, Milagros has a flowing, three-syllable elegance and a meaning of pure hope and blessing. It lends itself naturally to affectionate short forms, and its family of related names reflects that warmth and range. Recorded variants include Mila, Milagritos, Milagrosa, and Mirari, spanning from tender diminutives to regional cousins that share its sense of the miraculous — giving families plenty of ways to make the name their own across formal and everyday settings.
Milagros first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for girls in 2008, which was also its peak at rank #729, with 366 births recorded the following year. It held a place in the rankings through 2011, sitting at #987 that year. Across its brief run it accounts for 1,293 recorded births, marking it as a meaningful, culturally rooted choice within American naming. It remains a heartfelt, faith-filled choice cherished especially within Spanish-speaking families.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Milagros
US Popularity History (2008–2011)
Annual US births named Milagros by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2008 with 409 girls named Milagros (girl rank #729 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2011, ranked #987 for girls (259 US births). That's 258 places below its 2008 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milagritos | Miracle | Female | Spanish |
| Milagrosa | Miracle | Female | Spanish |
| Mirari | Miracle | Female | Basque |
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Compare Milagros to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Milagros against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).