Rust

Rust is the 3,004th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,702 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 25,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,702
Rank: 3,004th
How common: 1 in 25,500
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

As an gsw surname, from Rust.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Rust

Mathias Rust (born 1968)German amateur aviator and activist
Bernhard Rust (1883–1945)German Holocaust perpetrator
Albert Rust (born 1953)French association football player
Paul Rust (born 1981)American actor, comedian, writer, and musician
Bryan Rust (born 1992)American ice hockey winger
Alfred Rust (1900–1983)German archaeologist

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

Surnames like Rust

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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.