Roscoe
Roscoe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 67 births. Its best rank was 117th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 670.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920604 births
- Best rank
- #117in 1888
- Since 1880
- 22,096people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,096 boys have been named Roscoe in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 604 births.
The name has all but left use: 67 births in 2024, against 604 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 97 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Roscoe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 969 | |
| 1890s | 850 | |
| 1900s | 916 | |
| 1910s | 3,803 | |
| 1920s | 4,503 | |
| 1930s | 2,579 | |
| 1940s | 2,322 | |
| 1950s | 1,927 | |
| 1960s | 1,111 | |
| 1970s | 769 | |
| 1980s | 636 | |
| 1990s | 344 | |
| 2000s | 363 | |
| 2010s | 634 | |
| 2020s | 370 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Roscoe was the 214th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Roscoe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Emilpeak 1917
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Monroepeak 1921
- Claudepeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.