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Rush

in Connecticut

There are 196 people with the last name "Rush" in Connecticut.

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Rush 1,918
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  1. is 1,914th most common Garner
  2. is 1,915th most common Gonsalves
  3. is 1,916th most common Oquendo
  4. is 1,917th most common Romeo
  5. is 1,918th most common Rush
  6. is 1,919th most common Beausoleil
  7. is 1,920th most common Booker
  8. is 1,921st most common Cardoso
  9. is 1,922nd most common Cianci

Similar Names and Nicknames

Rushing, Rushton, Rash, Rusher, Ruch, Rushin, Rushford, Rushlow, Rish, Resh

Most Common First Names for Rush

James, Robert, William, John, Michael, Brian, Mary, Susan, Thomas, Charles

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived among rushes, from Middle English rush (a collective singular, Old English rysc), or perhaps an occupational name for someone who wove mats, baskets, and other articles out of rushes.

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis ‘descendant of Ros’, a personal name perhaps derived from ros ‘wood’. In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra (see Loughrey).

Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada, ‘descendant of Fuada’ a personal name meaning ‘hasty’, ‘rushing’ (see Foody).

Altered spelling of German Rüsch or Rusch (see Rusch) or Rosch.

FOREBEARS Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in the PA farming community of Byberry. He was descended from John Rush, a yeoman from Oxfordshire, England, who came to Byberry in 1683.

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