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Socorro

About 7,461 American babies have been named Socorro since 1913, most of them around 1929. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 4,400 Socorros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Socorro boys named Socorro

By the numbers

Total US births
7,461
Estimated living today
4,400
Median age today
58
Peak year
1929
Best rank
537th
Rank in 2025
10,107th
First recorded
1913
Girls / boys
6,912 / 549

How old the living Socorros are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 7,461 babies given the name since 1913, about 4,400 are alive — 58 in every hundred. Roughly 160 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Socorro is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Socorro is most concentrated in Arizona (9.9×), New Mexico (9.6×), Texas (5.2×), California (3.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1929

The most popular girls’ names the year Socorro peaked:

All the names of 1929

Socorro among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Socorro 9

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Socorro lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,765 women called Socorro were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Ourense Socorro 131 0.826 199
Palencia Socorro 44 0.551 264
Zamora Socorro 45 0.538 280
Málaga Socorro 400 0.436 253
León Socorro 98 0.426 325
Huelva Socorro 113 0.416 307

Listed in 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Socorro against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.