Milagro

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ancon in MX Mexico and Ancón in PA Panama.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Milagro is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name41K records spelled Milagro10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Ecuador, Costa Rica

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Milágro, Mílágrö, Mílágroe, Ancon

• Italian given name182 records spelled Milagro2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Ancon

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Milagro is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, miracle

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, pilsēta Ekvadorā, 119000 iedzīvotāju (2003. g.)

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 102 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Milagro Gil-Mascarellb. 1941ESSpanish professor
• Milagro Vargasb. 1955USsinger
• Milagro Salab. 1964ARArgentine politician
• Milagro Valerob. 1988VEVenezuelan politician
• Milagro Menab. 1993CRCosta Rican cyclist
• Milagro Henríquez SuarezPEPeruvian social worker

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 603 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Milagro?

We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Milagro (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Milagro have the most bearers?

Milagro is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled milagro.

How common is Milagro compared with other names?

In Argentina, Milagro is the 405th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Milagro a male or female name?

Milagro is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Milagro mean?

Recorded meaning: A traditional religious folk charm of Latin America and nearby regions, coming in a variety of forms.