Meaning and history
From an English surname, originally taken from a place name derived from Old Norse rá, meaning “roebuck,” and skógr, meaning “wood” or “forest.”
20062006: 29 births, rank #3,524
2007: 33 births, rank #3,313
2008: 47 births, rank #2,632
2009: 42 births, rank #2,847
2010: 44 births, rank #2,730
20112011: 47 births, rank #2,590
2012: 55 births, rank #2,326
2013: 60 births, rank #2,182
2014: 71 births, rank #2,000
2015: 71 births, rank #2,019
20162016: 64 births, rank #2,145
2017: 63 births, rank #2,154
2018: 82 births, rank #1,838
2019: 77 births, rank #1,917
2020: 80 births, rank #1,849
20212021: 79 births, rank #1,915
2022: 81 births, rank #1,917
2023: 63 births, rank #2,244
2024: 67 births, rank #2,169
20252025: 63 births, rank #2,230
Roscoe moved from #902 to #966 for boys between 1976 and 1978. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 604 births.