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Rush

in New Jersey

There are 836 people with the last name "Rush" in New Jersey.

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Rush 836
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  1. is 832nd most common Albert
  2. is 833rd most common Okeefe
  3. is 834th most common Stanton
  4. is 835th most common Briggs
  5. is 836th most common Rush
  6. is 837th most common Bond
  7. is 838th most common French
  8. is 839th most common Jefferson
  9. is 840th most common Bermudez

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rush

James, Robert, Patricia, Thomas, Joseph, Michael, David, Richard, John, Barbara

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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