Rush

37,453 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rush in the 2020 census, making it the 918th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,981.

By the numbers

People: 37,453
Rank: 918th
How common: 1 in 7,981
Per 100,000: 12.5

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the noun rush (“waterside plant, plant in marshes”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.1%
Black, not Hispanic 20.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Rush

Geoffrey Rush (born 1951)Australian actor
Ian Rush (born 1961)Welsh association football player and manager
Benjamin Rush (1746–1813)American physician, educator, and author
Barbara Rush (1927–2024)American actress
Odeya Rush (born 1997)Israeli actress and model
Jennifer Rush (born 1960)American pop singer
Otis Rush (1935–2018)American musician
Stockton Rush (1962–2023)American businessman

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

Surnames like Rush

Also a first name

Rush has been given to 3,450 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.