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Rush

in Virginia

There are 886 people with the last name "Rush" in Virginia.

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Rush 878
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  1. is 874th most common Poe
  2. is 875th most common Lancaster
  3. is 876th most common Tomlin
  4. is 877th most common Rojas
  5. is 878th most common Rush
  6. is 879th most common Sutphin
  7. is 880th most common Wolf
  8. is 881st most common Mcfarland
  9. is 882nd most common Yancey

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rush

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

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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