Miracle
#490 for girls in 2025, 603 births · #2,941 for boys in 2025, 42 births
Given to girls 97.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 868 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 21,471since 1960
Miracle over time
Rank among girls' names. Miracle has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #490 | 603 | #2,941 | 42 |
| 2024 | #468 | 668 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #426 | 725 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #411 | 766 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #403 | 789 | #3,362 | 34 |
| 2020 | #375 | 826 | #3,497 | 31 |
| 2019 | #366 | 868 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #376 | 833 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #366 | 850 | #5,111 | 18 |
| 2016 | #372 | 875 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #412 | 778 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #408 | 787 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #426 | 717 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #410 | 762 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #489 | 606 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | #518 | 577 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #457 | 677 | — | |
| 2008 | #468 | 679 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #448 | 716 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #479 | 660 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #459 | 663 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #483 | 610 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #486 | 600 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #519 | 527 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #515 | 524 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #524 | 504 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #580 | 429 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #633 | 366 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #555 | 420 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #734 | 287 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #863 | 225 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #1,043 | 175 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #1,164 | 151 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #1,231 | 141 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,297 | 128 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,578 | 96 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,629 | 85 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,860 | 62 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,948 | 56 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,703 | 64 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,715 | 63 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,414 | 40 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,189 | 46 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,273 | 42 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Miracle! It came in at #6,390, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Miracle is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#91 · 1 in 386
- Delaware#153 · 1 in 517
- Georgia#191 · 1 in 871
- Alabama#196 · 1 in 858
- Louisiana#200 · 1 in 856
Best ever in a state: #58 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #91 | 30 | 1 in 386 |
| Delaware | #153 | 6 | 1 in 517 |
| Georgia | #191 | 59 | 1 in 871 |
| Alabama | #196 | 23 | 1 in 858 |
| Louisiana | #200 | 23 | 1 in 856 |
| Arkansas | #216 | 14 | 1 in 879 |
| Hawaii | #233 | 5 | 1 in 663 |
| North Carolina | #250 | 38 | 1 in 1,195 |
| Tennessee | #263 | 25 | 1 in 1,243 |
| Illinois | #322 | 43 | 1 in 1,562 |
| Wisconsin | #330 | 16 | 1 in 1,565 |
| Florida | #348 | 47 | 1 in 1,824 |
| Nevada | #365 | 8 | 1 in 1,449 |
| Michigan | #376 | 24 | 1 in 1,973 |
| Kentucky | #384 | 10 | 1 in 1,969 |
| Missouri | #396 | 14 | 1 in 2,072 |
| Texas | #441 | 69 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Ohio | #462 | 22 | 1 in 2,604 |
| Indiana | #469 | 13 | 1 in 2,500 |
| Oklahoma | #478 | 8 | 1 in 2,084 |
| Maryland | #501 | 10 | 1 in 2,477 |
| Virginia | #508 | 13 | 1 in 2,854 |
| New Jersey | #527 | 14 | 1 in 2,900 |
| New York | #527 | 34 | 1 in 2,796 |
| South Carolina | #583 | 6 | 1 in 2,908 |
| California | #886 | 39 | 1 in 5,908 |
| Pennsylvania | #916 | 8 | 1 in 6,857 |
| Washington | #959 | 5 | 1 in 5,871 |
| Arizona | #1,143 | 5 | 1 in 7,106 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Miracle
- 22 spots since 2024 (#468 → #490)
- 115 spots since 2020 (#375 → #490)
- 78 spots since 2015 (#412 → #490)
- Biggest jump: 180 spots in 1995 (#1,043 → #863)
- Biggest drop: 78 spots in 1998 (#555 → #633)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2019 at #366 (868 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,934 girls born in 2019 were named Miracle (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,665 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 35.6% of all girls named Miracle (7,653) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 72 | #4,053 (1967) | #5,120 |
| 1970s | 187 | #2,273 (1979) | #4,117 |
| 1980s | 604 | #1,629 (1989) | #1,905 |
| 1990s | 2,418 | #555 (1997) | #968 |
| 2000s | 6,160 | #448 (2007) | #484 |
| 2010s | 7,653 | #366 (2019) | #414 |
| 2020s | 4,377 | #375 (2020) | #429 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Miracle in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 2,787 of them was named Miracle, which outranked 97.6% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 166,442 of them was named Miracle, which outranked 53.4% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,875Zoey13
- #5,875Zvi13
- #5,875Zyron13
- #6,226Miracle12
- #6,226Aalijah12
- #6,226Abdifatah12
- #6,226Abdulla12
- #6,634Aadyn11
- #6,634Aaiden11
- #6,634Aarion11
Tied with 407 names at #6,226; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.