Rocio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Marian name honouring Nuestra Senora de la Rocio ‘Our Lady of the Dew’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾosio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rocio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 446(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 452
- ARArgentina≈1 in 474
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #525 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 415 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 446 (inferred from the name graph)
110,760 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rocío in UY Uruguay.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Marian name honouring Nuestra Senora de la Rocio ‘Our Lady of the Dew’. Dew is associated in Roman Catholic hagiography with tears shed by the Virgin Mary for the wickedness of the world.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rocio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #55 | 110,760 | 1 in 452 | 111K | Rocio | 227 |
| AR Argentina | #139 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 474 | 210 | Rocio | 152 |
| PE Peru | #57 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 512 | — | Rocio | 121 |
| CO Colombia | #113 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 29 | Rocio | 153 |
| US United States | — | 35,800 | 1 in 9.3K | 36K | Rocio | 415 |
| PY Paraguay | #35 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 446 | — | Rocio | 58 |
| UY Uruguay | #452 | 6,114 | 1 in 554 | 6.1K | Rocío | 55 |
110,760 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rocio is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of rociar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rocío San Miguelb. 1966VEVenezuelan-Spanish activist
- Rocío Muñoz-Cobob. 1971ESSpanish actress
- Rocío Monasteriob. 1974CUCuban architect, businesswoman and politician
- Rocío Carrascob. 1977ESSpanish television presenter
- Rocío Molina tirurib. 1984ESSpanish choreographer
- Rocío Muñoz Moralesb. 1988ESSpanish actor and model
- Rokob. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish musician and actress
- Rocío Igarzábalb. 1989ARArgentine actress
- Rocío Gálvezb. 1997ESSpanish association football player
- Paloma Mamib. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 111K | #79 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 109K | #41 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36K | #1,133 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 6.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.9K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 222 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 210 | #494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 203 | #1,133 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 119 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 119 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 59 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 46 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Rocio come from?
- Marian name honouring Nuestra Senora de la Rocio ‘Our Lady of the Dew’. Dew is associated in Roman Catholic hagiography with tears shed by the Virgin Mary for the wickedness of the world. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Rocio a male or female name?
- Rocio is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Rocio?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾosio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Rocio mean?
- Recorded meaning: Marian name honouring Nuestra Senora de la Rocio ‘Our Lady of the Dew’.
- In which country does Rocio have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Rocio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rocio.
- How common is the name Rocio?
- In Spain, the national register counted 110,760 people named Rocio, about 1 in 452 residents.
- How common is Rocio compared with other names?
- In Spain, Rocio is the 55th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rocio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rocioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rocio” — the 55th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.