Bush

80,122 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bush in the 2020 census, making it the 393rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,731.

By the numbers

People: 80,122
Rank: 393rd
How common: 1 in 3,731
Per 100,000: 26.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Either the family name for those who live near a bush or a thicket of bushes, or the family name for those living at or near a bush (in the archaic sense of wine merchant or tavern).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bush described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.2%
Black, not Hispanic 21.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bush

George W. Bush (born 1946)President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018)president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Laura Bush (born 1946)First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Barbara Bush (1925–2018)First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Kate Bush (born 1958)English singer, pianist and songwriter
Jeb Bush (born 1953)Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007
Sophia Bush (born 1982)American actress
Vannevar Bush (1890–1974)American electrical engineer and science administrator

People named Bush with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bush

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.