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Refugio

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Refugio

Say it: reh-FOO-hyoh

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Meaning

Spanish 'refuge', after Nuestra Señora del Refugio, Refuge of Sinners.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

A characteristically Mexican devotional name given to both girls and boys, with Cuca and Cuco as pet forms.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1920s

In the United States

02040608018801900192019401960198020002020Girls 1892Boys 1927per million babies of that sex
  • 4,805 babies given this name since 1885
  • At its height in 1927, about 1 in 16,100 boys
  • 7 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

Mexican

The family of the name

Other spellings: Cuca, Cuco

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Where this comes from

  • Parish baptism registers
  • National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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