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Rush

in Tennessee

There are 920 people with the last name "Rush" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Rush 829
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  1. is 825th most common Bray
  2. is 826th most common Hickey
  3. is 827th most common Mayberry
  4. is 828th most common Morales
  5. is 829th most common Rush
  6. is 830th most common Craft
  7. is 831st most common Crutcher
  8. is 832nd most common Poe
  9. is 833rd most common Parrott

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rush

Charles, John, William, James, Robert, Michael, Richard, Donald, Mary, David

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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