Boy · Old Norse, through English
Roscoe
Say it: ROSS-koh
Meaning
From a place name in Lancashire, from Old Norse 'roe-deer wood'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A surname-name popular in 19th-century America.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 21,809 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 988 boys
- 80 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Roscoe Conkling, American politician
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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