Rosco

Where Rosco comes from

Rosco hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    Debut at its peak, #677
    #677 among boys with 8 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1928
    Rosco Gordon born
    American Blues singer and songwriter
  4. 1993
    Rosco Allen born
    Hungarian basketball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rosco Allen · Hungarian basketball player, born 1993
  • Rosco Gordon · American Blues singer and songwriter, 1928–2002

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.