Rosco
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1883 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,440since 1883
Rosco over time
Rank among boys' names. Rosco has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | #2,168 | 14 |
| 1955 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | #2,391 | 11 |
| 1952 | #2,010 | 15 |
| 1951 | #1,972 | 15 |
| 1950 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1949 | #2,123 | 13 |
| 1948 | #2,218 | 12 |
| 1947 | #2,671 | 9 |
| 1946 | #1,949 | 14 |
| 1945 | #2,393 | 9 |
| 1944 | #2,309 | 10 |
| 1943 | #1,577 | 20 |
| 1942 | #2,145 | 12 |
| 1941 | #1,997 | 13 |
| 1940 | #1,736 | 16 |
| 1939 | #2,159 | 11 |
| 1938 | #1,559 | 19 |
| 1937 | #1,828 | 15 |
| 1936 | #1,417 | 22 |
| 1935 | #1,584 | 19 |
| 1934 | #1,150 | 33 |
| 1933 | #1,586 | 19 |
| 1932 | #1,651 | 19 |
| 1931 | #1,489 | 22 |
| 1930 | #1,299 | 30 |
| 1929 | #1,443 | 25 |
| 1928 | #1,254 | 33 |
| 1927 | #1,198 | 36 |
| 1926 | #1,515 | 24 |
| 1925 | #1,332 | 30 |
| 1924 | #1,223 | 35 |
| 1923 | #1,194 | 36 |
| 1922 | #1,084 | 42 |
| 1921 | #1,267 | 33 |
| 1920 | #1,208 | 36 |
| 1919 | #1,247 | 32 |
| 1918 | #1,404 | 26 |
| 1917 | #1,203 | 32 |
| 1916 | #1,335 | 26 |
| 1915 | #1,306 | 26 |
| 1914 | #1,342 | 20 |
| 1913 | #1,112 | 21 |
| 1912 | #970 | 22 |
| 1911 | #1,190 | 9 |
| 1910 | #1,118 | 9 |
| 1909 | #1,083 | 8 |
| 1908 | #1,217 | 6 |
| 1907 | #1,094 | 7 |
| 1906 | #1,253 | 5 |
| 1905 | #836 | 9 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #734 | 10 |
| 1902 | #1,137 | 5 |
| 1901 | #943 | 6 |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | #852 | 7 |
| 1896 | #982 | 6 |
| 1895 | #978 | 6 |
| 1894 | #1,074 | 5 |
| 1893 | #907 | 6 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #994 | 5 |
| 1889 | #878 | 6 |
| 1888 | #815 | 7 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | #845 | 6 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #701 | 8 |
| 1883 | #677 | 8 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Rosco! It came in at #677, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rosco is popular in 1924
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#470 · 1 in 5,188
Best ever in a state: #318 in Mississippi, 1922.
Show every state
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| Alabama | #470 | 5 | 1 in 5,188 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rosco
- 3,245 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #9,714)
- 975 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #9,714)
- 1,674 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 403 spots in 1903 (#1,137 → #734)
- Biggest drop: 417 spots in 1906 (#836 → #1,253)
- Debuted 1883
- Peaked 1883 at #677 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1888–1890
- Highest: 1 in 11,923 boys born in 1903 were named Rosco (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #677 in 1883, was only 1 in 13,078 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all boys named Rosco (330) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 35 | #677 (1883) | #783 |
| 1890s | 35 | #852 (1897) | #965 |
| 1900s | 56 | #734 (1903) | #1,037 |
| 1910s | 223 | #970 (1912) | #1,223 |
| 1920s | 330 | #1,084 (1922) | #1,272 |
| 1930s | 209 | #1,150 (1934) | #1,572 |
| 1940s | 128 | #1,577 (1943) | #2,112 |
| 1950s | 121 | #1,972 (1951) | #2,409 |
| 1960s | 63 | #2,423 (1960) | #3,148 |
| 1970s | 46 | #3,223 (1973) | #4,315 |
| 1980s | 41 | #5,200 (1988) | #6,159 |
| 1990s | 11 | #7,638 (1993) | #8,253 |
| 2000s | 33 | #8,299 (2005) | #10,285 |
| 2010s | 70 | #7,009 (2011) | #9,490 |
| 2020s | 39 | #6,469 (2024) | #9,578 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rosco in 1924
Top boys' names in 1924
More about 1924
boys
1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 32,364 of them was named Rosco, which outranked 75.4% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,204Reyes36
- #1,204Spurgeon36
- #1,204Teodoro36
- #1,223Rosco35
- #1,223Akira35
- #1,223Almon35
- #1,223Burrell35
- #1,246Alf34
- #1,246Amado34
- #1,246Arno34
Tied with 22 names at #1,223; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.