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The russ Surname

russ Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Rouse.
  2. German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with hrod ‘renown’.
  3. German (of Slavic origin): from Old Slavic rusu ‘reddish’, ‘blond’, hence a nickname or an ethnic name meaning ‘Russian’.
  4. Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived by a scree, Middle High German ru(o)zze.
  5. In some instances the name referred to personal or business connections with Russia, the country of the Reussen, from Middle High German Riusse.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of russ Families in the US in 1920
Number of russ families
 149-295
 50-148		 1-49
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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