In 2025, 9 US girls were named Socorro, making it the 10,805th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,213 places from #12,018 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Socorro in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #539, reached in 1929. That year also had the most girls given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #12,864 in 2015 and #935 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Socorro in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 8 babies. In all, 7,461 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,291 babies named Socorro.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 82 US girls were named Socorro; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Socoro are summarised on this page.