Socorro

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Socorro

Say it: soh-KOH-rroh

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Meaning

Spanish 'help, succour', after Nuestra Señora del (Perpetuo) Socorro, Our Lady of (Perpetual) Help.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Usually given as María del Socorro, a devotional name common in Mexico and Colombia in the 20th century.

Its wave through time

A fashion of the 1920s

In the United States

7,414 babies given this name since 1913
At its height in 1929, about 1 in 7,000 girls
5 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Mexican Central American Andean Spanish

The family of the name

Portuguese	Socorro

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ReyesGirl or boySpanish 'kings', from the Virgen de los Reyes, patroness of Seville, and the feast of the Three Kings.Colonial · peak 1930

InèsGirlSpanish form of Agnes, from Greek hagnē 'pure, holy'.Middle Ages · peak 1911

ConcepciónGirlSpanish 'conception', from the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.Colonial · peak 1925

PilarGirlSpanish 'pillar', from Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the Virgin of the Pillar venerated in Zaragoza.Colonial · peak 2005

TrinidadGirl or boySpanish 'Trinity'.Colonial · peak 1922

MontserratGirlCatalan 'serrated mountain', from the mountain and Benedictine abbey near Barcelona whose Black Virgin is patroness…Renaissance · peak 2014

ScarlettGirlFrom an English occupational surname for a dyer or seller of scarlet, a fine cloth.Modern · peak 2017

SigridGirlFrom Old Norse sigr 'victory' and fríðr 'beautiful, beloved'.Viking & Saxon · peak 1893

Where this comes from

Parish baptism registers
National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.