girls:
5 births since 1927
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
22k births since 1880
#773 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1880
#1715 (78th percentile)
The name Roscoe is the #1,715 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,032 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #773 (83.2% percentile) for all time with 22,027 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1927.
Roscoe has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1927 for girls).
The name Roscoe has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Roscoe reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 63.1% percentile (ranked #198) with 577 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 1,085 births per million (ranked 52.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Roscoe ranks #854 for boys (6.3% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Roscoe reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #603) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roscoe".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Roscoe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Roscoe is pronounced as RAH-skoh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAW-skoh, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R AA1 S K OW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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