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Rosko Surname Meaning

Hungarian (Roskó): nickname for a red-haired man of Romanian origin (see Rosca). Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (Roško): habitational name from Roškovce in the Zemplín region in eastern Slovakia or a Slavicized form of Hungarian Roskó (see 1 above).

Slovak and Czech (Roško): perhaps a hypocoristic derivative of roh ‘horn’ or of the personal name Roch 1 Latin Rochus. Croatian (Roško): probably from a pet form of the nickname Rošo ‘red-haired’ (see Rosic) or its cognate Roso.

Alternatively, of the same origin as the name in 5 below. Croatian and Serbian (Roško): from a pet form of personal names beginning with Ro- (see Rodich) or containing the syllable roš such as Juroš (from Croatian Juraj ‘George’).

The surname Roško is very rare in Serbia, and in Croatia it may alternatively be of Hungarian origin (see 1 above). Compare Roscoe.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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Between 1955 and 2004, in the United States, Rosko life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1961, and highest in 1967. The average life expectancy for Rosko in 1955 was 73, and 70 in 2004.

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