Roscoe is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Roscoe is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Roscoe. In the SmartGenius ranking, Roscoe is #1,817 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 14,516 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Roscoe. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Roscoe annualy. This means that there have been boys named Roscoe who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Roscoe have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Roscoe even more than any other time: in 1888, it holds its present record at rank #110 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Roscoe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Roscoe has never been ranked higher than #110. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,720 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 81 boys named Roscoe were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Roscoe were born, there have been 45 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Roscoe, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to men and boys named Roscoe. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Roscoe living in one state or another. If your name is Roscoe and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Kentucky, which has the most people named Roscoe relative to the population, you still have to ask 2,249 men and boys their names before you hear Roscoe as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Roscoe is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Roscoe and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Roscoe, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Sun
Cat
Orange
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Roscoe
Roscoe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
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C
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Roscoe sounds like this:
