Rosco
Rosco was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,465 among boys’ names; 1,440 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rosco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rosco?
#10,465 among boys’ names, 2025
Rosco fell from #8,586 in 2015 to #10,465 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
42 babies in 1922, the peak
Rosco peaked in 1922, when 42 boys were given it, #1,104 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,465 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,744 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,965 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,698 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,385 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,585 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,854 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,671 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,586 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,664 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #7,449 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,810 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,398 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,492 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,173 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,191 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,584 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,756 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,931 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,008 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,491 | 3.1 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,787 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,635 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,784 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,601 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,114 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,161 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,084 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,876 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,947 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,792 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,344 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,403 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,867 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,489 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,485 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,745 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,548 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,966 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,961 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,309 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,514 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,393 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,410 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,469 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,246 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,205 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,707 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,508 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,062 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,039 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,303 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,206 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,300 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,833 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,013 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,548 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,442 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,624 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,241 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,071 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,789 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,264 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,608 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,903 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,454 | 21.2 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,643 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,169 | 32.0 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,633 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,704 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,528 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,324 | 27.3 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,476 | 23.2 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,267 | 29.8 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,222 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,557 | 21.6 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,357 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,243 | 30.9 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,209 | 32.8 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,104 | 38.6 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,290 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,224 | 33.8 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,260 | 32.6 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,439 | 25.7 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,220 | 34.6 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,368 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,334 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,380 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,140 | 41.0 |
| 1912 | 22 | #991 | 51.2 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,272 | 39.8 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,181 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,140 | 48.8 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,345 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,183 | 47.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,385 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 9 | #909 | 68.0 |
| 1903 | 10 | #767 | 83.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,284 | 40.8 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,036 | 56.4 |
| 1897 | 7 | #921 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,081 | 50.2 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,061 | 51.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,210 | 43.2 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,010 | 53.4 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,130 | 45.0 |
| 1889 | 6 | #956 | 54.3 |
| 1888 | 7 | #901 | 57.9 |
| 1886 | 6 | #944 | 54.2 |
| 1884 | 8 | #746 | 69.9 |
| 1883 | 8 | #714 | 76.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rosco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rosco has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rosco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rosco, and how old are they?
An estimated 440 Americans named Rosco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 17 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 531 people named Rosco (6 women and girls, 525 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 484 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rosco rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 23,610 babies since 1880, Rosco is the second most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 70 babies (10%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rosco
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rosco and names like it
- Compare Rosco and RoscoeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRosco peaked in 1922.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rosco since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Rosco.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rosco alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.