Socorro
Socorro is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 539th, in 1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1929160 births
- Best rank
- #539in 1929
- Since 1913
- 7,452people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,903 girls have been named Socorro in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 160 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 160 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 549 boys have also been given it, 7.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Socorro | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 183 | |
| 1920s | 1,201 | |
| 1930s | 1,003 | |
| 1940s | 945 | |
| 1950s | 934 | |
| 1960s | 715 | |
| 1970s | 617 | |
| 1980s | 536 | |
| 1990s | 428 | |
| 2000s | 212 | |
| 2010s | 86 | |
| 2020s | 43 |
In 1929, its biggest year
Socorro was the 539th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1929 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Socorro
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amparopeak 1927
- Ninfapeak 1928
- Ernestinapeak 1947
- Beliapeak 1931
- Hortenciapeak 1925
- Enedinapeak 1927
- Veliapeak 1929
- Genellpeak 1932
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.