Rosco
Rosco is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 714th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192242 births
- Best rank
- #714in 1883
- Since 1883
- 1,433people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,433 boys have been named Rosco in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 42 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rosco | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 35 | |
| 1890s | 35 | |
| 1900s | 56 | |
| 1910s | 223 | |
| 1920s | 330 | |
| 1930s | 209 | |
| 1940s | 128 | |
| 1950s | 121 | |
| 1960s | 63 | |
| 1970s | 46 | |
| 1980s | 41 | |
| 1990s | 11 | |
| 2000s | 33 | |
| 2010s | 70 | |
| 2020s | 32 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Rosco was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Rosco
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Clementpeak 1918
- Oranpeak 1922
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Waldopeak 1915
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Alviepeak 1921
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.