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Rush

Rank in 2024
#1,493
Born in 2024
120
Peak year
2023 · #1271
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its 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.

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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.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Rush, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Ross

    Rank
    #1,361
    Born '24
    139
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19852024
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    Russ

    Rank
    #6,227
    Born '24
    14
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19592024