Roscoe

Norse

"deer forest"

Roscoe Origin and Meaning

The name Roscoe is a boy's name of Scandinavian, Norse origin meaning "deer forest".

Fairly popular a hundred years ago but out of sight now, the quirky Roscoe deserves a place on every adventurous baby-namer's long list. It joins Rufus, Roman, Remy, Romulus, and Ray as one of the R names that sound fresh again after too many years of Robert, Richard, and Ronald.

Originally a place and surname, Roscoe had its glory days in the 1880s, when it reached as high as Number 138, then gradually declined, possibly damaged by the scandals surrounding silent star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and then the hillbilly image it acquired thanks to Sheriff Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard.

Roscoe has been out of the Top 1000 since 1978 but feels very much in step with the trending o-ending boy names popular now, such as Milo, Hugo, and Otto.

Trivia tidbit: The R in Edward R. Murrow stands for Roscoe; the distinguished newsman's first name was really Egbert.

Roscoe Rank in US Top 1000

# 966 in the US

Roscoe Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 198 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Roscoe

• 198 Nameberry 2025
• 921 Unique 2022
• 840 England 2023
• 73 Dogs 2022

20 Names Similar to Roscoe

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Famous People Named Roscoe

• Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle American silent film actor
• Roscoe Conkling U.S. Senator from New York
• Roscoe Conkling McCulloch U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Roscoe Conkling Patterson U.S. Senator from Missouri
• Roscoe Conkling Bruce American educator
• Roscoe Tanner American tennis player
• Roscoe Parrish American NFL football player
• Roscoe Dash stage name of Jeffery Johnson, Jr., American rapper
• Roscoe Lee Browne American actor and director
• Roscoe Fulton "Rocky" Carroll American actor
• Roscoe Gardner Bartlett U.S. Congressman from Maryland
• Roscoe Mitchell American jazz saxophonist
• (Nathan) Roscoe Pound American legal scholar
• Roscoe Robinson Jr., first black four,star general in the U.S.
• Roscoe Shelton American singer
• Roscoe Hunter Orman American actor
• Roscoe Clyde Miller American baseball player
• Roscoe Karns American actor
• Roscoe Holcomb American bluegrass musician
• Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter first director of the CIA
• Flynn Roscoe Farrar (b. 2014) son of musician Sam Farrar of Phantom Planet

The name Roscoe in Pop Culture

• "Roscoe" song by American band Midlake
• "Roscoe" novel by William Kennedy
• Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles popular California restaurant chain
• Roscoe name of an important car in tv series, "Teen Wolf"