Rusk Family History
Rusk Name Meaning
Scottish: from Gaelic riasg ‘marsh with sedge’. The surname may be topographic denoting someone who lived beside a marsh or habitational denoting someone who lived at a place so named such as Risk in Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire). Probably also an altered form of German Ruske Roske diminutives of Rose .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022