Rocio
Meaning
dew (from Nuestra Senora del Rocio, Our Lady of the Dew)
The story
Rocio is the Spanish Rocío, dew, from Nuestra Señora del Rocío, Our Lady of the Dew, the Andalusian Virgin whose spring pilgrimage to the shrine at El Rocío draws enormous crowds. As a given name it is devotion made morning-fresh, water that arrives silently overnight. The US curve tells a clear immigration story: absent for the record's first six decades, it registers from the 1950s, steps up, and holds a quiet, unbroken band ever since, with its strongest showings shared between the 1970s and the 2020s. Never common and never fading, it is a devotional name in the data, steady wherever Spanish-speaking families have settled. The accent is part of the Spanish name, even when American records and URLs leave it off.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Rocio peaked in the 1970s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
412 people · the #15,273 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 35
Among people named Rocio living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Rocio
Most people given the name Rocio in the United States were born between 1980 and 2009. The Rocio you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Rocio deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Rocio truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Rocio fits with your family’s names and surname.
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