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Rush

in the US

There are 32,009 people with the last name "Rush" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Rush 802
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  1. is 798th most common Walls
  2. is 799th most common Hanna
  3. is 800th most common Woodward
  4. is 801st most common Clements
  5. is 802nd most common Rush
  6. is 803rd most common Camacho
  7. is 804th most common Brandt
  8. is 805th most common Blanchard
  9. is 806th most common Duffy

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rush

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

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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