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Rocío
Say it: roh-THEE-oh
Meaning
Spanish 'dew', from the Virgen del Rocío of Almonte in Huelva.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Spread from Andalusia with the El Rocío pilgrimage and became common across Spain in the 20th century.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 13,426 babies given this name since 1952
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 4,100 girls
- 67 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Rocio
Famous bearers
- Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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