Rush
The boy's name Rush has been in the national records since 1880, with 3,450 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,425th. About 2,400 Rushes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rush boys named Rush
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,450
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,271st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,425th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 12 / 3,438
How old the living Rushes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,450 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,400 are alive — 69 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 250 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rushs
- Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021)American political commentator
- Rush D. Holt, Jr. (born 1948)American scientist and politician
People named Rush with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rush is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rush is most concentrated in West Virginia (7.4×), Texas (4.9×), Utah (3.7×), Oklahoma (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Rush peaked:
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Rush against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.