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Socorro
Say it: soh-KOH-rroh
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
The family of the name
| Portuguese | Socorro |
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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
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