Socorro
Socorro was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,801 among girls’ names; 7,461 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,280 Americans named Socorro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 41 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Socorro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Socorro mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Socorro is “a female given name”
Ellipsis of Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro, a title of the Virgin Mary.
/soˈko.ʁu/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Socorro?
#10,801 among girls’ names, 2025
Socorro rose from #12,859 in 2015 to #10,801 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.6 per million.
176 babies in 1929, the peak
Socorro peaked in 1929, when 176 babies were given it (160 girls, #539 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,801 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,127 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,583 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,189 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,380 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,624 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,919 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,989 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,859 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,843 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,399 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,308 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,085 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,159 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,576 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,468 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,462 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,813 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,409 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,455 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,919 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,869 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,536 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,382 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,184 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,718 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,582 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,348 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,673 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,089 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,816 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,677 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,378 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,279 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,863 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,267 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,412 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,646 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,747 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,793 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,640 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,693 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,616 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,688 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,470 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,546 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,486 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,727 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,568 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,682 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,537 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,371 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,300 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,273 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 72 | #1,331 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 79 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 89 | #1,166 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 81 | #1,216 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 110 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 86 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,060 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 76 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 86 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 91 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 96 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 106 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 92 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 104 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 114 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 100 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 98 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 88 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 72 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 87 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 112 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 86 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 84 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 79 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 81 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 98 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 87 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 103 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 107 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 89 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1932 | 107 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 115 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 137 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 160 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 146 | #586 | 0.13 |
| 1927 | 138 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 158 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1925 | 126 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 124 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 90 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 90 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 93 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 76 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 56 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 17 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Socorro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,461 Americans recorded as Socorro, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Socorro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Socorro, and how old are they?
4,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 7,461 Americans ever recorded as Socorro. The median Socorro alive today is 59 years old; half are between 41 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 19,525 people named Socorro (18,287 women and girls, 1,238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 518 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,420 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 995 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 869 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 363 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 106 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Socorro born?
The states with the most babies named Socorro are Texas, California and Arizona, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,370 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| California | 2,194 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Arizona | 717 | not ranked | 10.7× |
| New Mexico | 303 | not ranked | 6.6× |
| New York | 145 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 127 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Socorro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Socorro is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1913 it was given 10.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Socorro with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Socorro
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Socorro and names like it
- Compare Socorro and AmparoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sSocorro peaked in 1929.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Socorro since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Socorro: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Socorro.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Socorro alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.