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Ross

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Meaning

From a Scottish surname and region, from Gaelic ros 'headland, promontory'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Used in the US since the 1800s.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1980s

In the United States

00.511.518801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1889per 1,000 babies of that sex
  • 81,608 babies given this name since 1880
  • At its height in 1985, about 1 in 980 boys
  • 135 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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