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rusk Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: probably a topographic name from Gaelic riasg ‘marsh’, ‘bog’. Compare Risk.
  2. Probably also an altered form of German Ruske, Roske, diminutives of Rose.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The rusk name in History

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Distribution of rusk Families in the US in 1920
Number of rusk families
 37-72
 13-36		 1-12
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