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Rush

in South Carolina

There are 858 people with the last name "Rush" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Rush 619
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  1. is 615th most common Quick
  2. is 616th most common Conner
  3. is 617th most common Barfield
  4. is 618th most common Parris
  5. is 619th most common Rush
  6. is 620th most common Ware
  7. is 621st most common Sherman
  8. is 622nd most common Wilkes
  9. is 623rd most common Gentry

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rush

John, James, William, David, Barbara, Charles, Michael, Elizabeth, Robert, Kenneth

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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