Rush Family History
Rush Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rush
Name Distribution of Rush Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rush families
 291 - 579  98 - 290 |
 1 - 97  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rush families
|
231 - 460 78 - 230 |
1 - 77 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rush families
|
38 - 73 13 - 37 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rush census records
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Rush Family Origin
Rush Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Rush
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Rush Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Rush census records
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