Roscoe

Where Roscoe comes from

From a place in Lancashire, from Old Norse rá (“roebuck”) + skógr (“forest”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Roscoe
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #151 among boys — 90 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Roscoe Arbuckle born
    American actor, director and comedian
  3. 1888
    Peak, #117
    141 babies named Roscoe — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #216.
  5. 1951
    Roscoe Tanner born
    US tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Roscoe Arbuckle · American actor, director and comedian, 1887–1933
  • Roscoe Tanner · US tennis player, born 1951
  • Roscoe Lee Browne · American actor and director, 1922–2007
  • Roscoe Lockwood · American rower, 1875–1960
  • Roscoe Orman · American actor, born 1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.