1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 120 boys were named Rush, about 1 in every 14,294.
- It peaked in 2023 with 151 babies, ranked #1271.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 3,311 boys have been named Rush since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Rush per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 446 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 370 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 319 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 181 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 227 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 458 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,135 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As an English surname, from the noun rush (“waterside plant, plant in marshes”). Also as an English surname, from the archaic noun rush (“beehive”), from French ruche. As an Irish surname, from Ó Ruis (literally “descendant of Ros”), a name from ros (“wood”). Sometimes also translated from Ó Luachra due to confusion with luachair (“rushes”), see Loughrey. Also as an Irish surname, translated/Anglicized from Ó Fuada (literally “descendant of Fuada”), compare Foody, from the noun fuad (“haste”). As a German surname, Americanized from Rüsch, Ruesch, Rusch.
- A male given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Rush, CC BY-SA 4.0.