Socorro

Where Socorro comes from

Socorro 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. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,331 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Peak, #537
    160 babies named Socorro — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1939
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #766.
  4. 1943
    Socorro Bonilla born
    Mexican actress
  5. 1975
    Socorro Acioli born
    Brazilian writer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Socorro Bonilla · Mexican actress, born 1943
  • Socorro Acioli · Brazilian writer, born 1975
  • Socorro Buenos aires · Mexican actress, 1925–2003
  • Socorro Ramos · businesswoman, owner of National Bookstore, born 1923
  • Socorro Herrera · American actress, born 1977

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.