girls:
6.9k births since 1913
#1981 (65th percentile)
boys:
549 births since 1919
#4037 (12th percentile)
overall:
7.4k births since 1913
#3128 (60th percentile)
The name Socorro is the #3,128 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,444 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 59.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,981 (65.3% percentile) for all time with 6,895 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,037 (11.9% percentile) for all time with 549 births since 1919.
Socorro first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1919 for boys).
The name Socorro has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Socorro reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 25.6% percentile (ranked #441) with 138 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 138 births per million (ranked 25.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Socorro ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Socorro reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #520) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Socorro".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Socorro. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Socorro is pronounced as soh-KAW-roh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-KAW-roh, at 42.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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