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Socorro

#10,801 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Succour, help, relief

Socorro has been given to 7,461 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #10,801 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1929, with 160 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Socorro, 2025

1 in 368,000

Socorro over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Socorro over time

In 2025, Socorro went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19132025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Socorro: meaning, origin, and history

Succour, help, relief

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Socorro means

Socorro means “succour, help, relief”.

Origin, language, and formation

Socorro is used in Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Socorro is pronounced /soˈko.ʁu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,912 girls were recorded with the name Socorro between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 160 in 1929; its best national rank was #539 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,189 in 2020 to #10,801 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,859 in 2015 to #10,801 in 2025.

In the United States, 549 boys were recorded with the name Socorro between 1919 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1929; its best national rank was #1,994 in 1929.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Socorro?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,801
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Socorro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Socorro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Socorros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Socorro was born before 1951 — so the typical Socorro is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,580
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (1,201).

Is Socorro rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,212
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,388
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,058
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.6%
Peak was 1929 (160)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#539
1929

Where Socorro is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Socorro was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 2,632 girls, against 1 in 9,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in —).

038 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 2,632
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 2,703
  3. 3Texas1 in 5,263
  4. 4California1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Socorro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Socorro is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Socorro was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 264,622 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Socorro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Socorro

People whose public names include Socorro, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Socorro by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,801
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,388
Best rank ever
#539
1929
Peak year
1929
160 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,912
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,994
1929
Peak year
1929
16 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
549
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Socorro

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Socorro

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Socorro, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ErnestinaDonaldHortenciaDarlineChristeneAmparoCharlineCharlesOfeliaJonnieVeliaEdward

Sibling names for Socorro

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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