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The ROSCOE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,093 6190 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 734 7096 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +4359 +906 +0.001 +4
Other Countries
Australia 184 8124 0.001 11
United Kingdom 2,256 2668 0.005 49
Top States for ROSCOE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 407 3789 0.004 36
California 328 8917 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 312 5387 0.003 25
Florida 257 8170 0.002 16
Michigan 248 5379 0.002 25
Top States for ROSCOE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 216 2901 0.005 54
North Dakota 32 3946 0.005 50
Vermont 25 4174 0.004 41
Alabama 179 3517 0.004 40
New Hampshire 46 4132 0.004 37

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ROSCOE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ROSCOE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ROSCOE in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ROSCOE by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ROSCOE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROSCOE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ROSCOE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ROSCOE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 89 1.75
White (Hispanic) 82 1.61
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.53
Asian/Pacific 16 0.31
White (Caucasian) 3,692 72.49
Black/African American 1,187 23.31

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ROSCOE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ROSCOE in historical publications

ROSCOE. Possibly a corruption of Roscrowe. It is certainly a Cornish name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ROSCOE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROSCOE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ROSCOE

The following words are slight variants of ROSCOE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.