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Rush

in North Carolina

There are 1,092 people with the last name "Rush" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

NameRank
Rush 1,012
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  1. is 1,008th most common Boggs
  2. is 1,009th most common Ware
  3. is 1,010th most common Propst
  4. is 1,011th most common Charles
  5. is 1,012th most common Rush
  6. is 1,013th most common Craft
  7. is 1,014th most common Speight
  8. is 1,015th most common Blanchard
  9. is 1,016th most common Cotton

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rush

Robert, Michael, John, David, James, William, Charles, Linda, Mary, George

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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