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Roscoe

Roscoe ranks #414 out of 682 boy cat names in our data (the #1 boy cat name is Charlie). Across all 2 places, 5 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #118 among boy dog names.
Roscoe's popularity trend

Roscoe's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2015.

0.01%0.02%0.03%0.04%2013201520172019
Cats in our data
5
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#414
of 682 boy cat names
5-year rank move
−1,134
2014 → 2019
Gender split
100% male
0% female100% male

Gender split comes from 17 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Roscoe mean?
2 syllablesOrigin: a surname

Roscoe began as an English surname taken from a place name, likely rooted in the Old Norse rá, meaning "roebuck" (a small deer), and skógr, meaning "forest" or "wood" — together, something like "roe-deer forest." It later crossed over into use as a given name.

There's an old-fashioned, gentlemanly charm to Roscoe — it suits a dog with steady, dignified energy, the sort who ambles rather than dashes.

Etymology & pronunciation from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where Roscoe shows up

Cats named Roscoe per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
SeattleWA, US0.02%
TorontoON, CA0.01%

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