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Ross
Pronounced /ɹɔs/
Rank in 2024
#1,361
Born in 2024
139
Peak year
1985 · #147
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 139 boys were named Ross, about 1 in every 12,340.
- It peaked in 1985 with 1,884 babies, ranked #147.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 81,752 boys have been named Ross since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ross per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 8,755 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Silent: 8,685 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Boomers: 17,790 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 13,403 babies, 0.49 per 1,000. Millennials: 22,885 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,458 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,891 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As a Scottish surname, from several places such as Roose in Cumbria or Roos in Yorkshire, both from Scottish Gaelic ros (“promontory”) or a Brythonic parallel of its source such as Welsh rhos (“moor, heath”). There were also several Norman families in Scotland who took their name from Rots in Calvados. Compare Rose, Rhodes. As an English surname, from Wrose in Shipley, with loss of initial w. As an English and German surname, from derivatives of the old Germanic root common in names *hrōþi (“fame”). Compare Rossell.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of early 19th century and later usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ɹɔs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0.