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bush Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Busch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bush Families in the US in 1920
Number of bush families
 647-1292
 216-646		 1-215
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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