Rocio

Where Rocio comes from

Rocio hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #3,796 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Rocio de la Villa born
    researcher
  3. 1991
    Peak, #521
    446 babies named Rocio — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1992
    Rocio Ocanto born
    Argentine handball player
  5. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,180.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rocio Ocanto · Argentine handball player, born 1992
  • Rocio de la Villa · researcher, born 1959
  • Rocio Urquijo · Spanish artist, 1935–2009
  • Rocio Rivarola · Paraguayan rower, born 1987
  • Rocio Bonilla · Spanish picturebook maker, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.