Russ
The boy's name Russ has been in the national records since 1898, with 6,131 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 4,500 Russes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Russ
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,131
- Estimated living today
- 4,500
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 427th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1898
How old the living Russes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,131 babies given the name since 1898, about 4,500 are alive — 74 in every hundred. Roughly 200 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 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.
Where the name comes from
Diminutive of Russell.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Russs
- Russ Meyer (1922–2004)American film director and photographer
- Russ J Kun (born 1975)Nauruan politician
- Russ Tamblyn (born 1934)American actor
- Russ Feingold (born 1953)Wisconsin politician; three-term U.S. Senator
- Russ Fulcher (born 1963)American politician
- Russ Carnahan (born 1958)American politician
- Russ Howard (born 1956)Canadian curler
- Russ Ballard (born 1945)English musician
People named Russ with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Russ is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Russ is most concentrated in Washington (2.8×), Oregon (2.6×), California (2.2×), Michigan (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Russ peaked:
Related names
Russ 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.