# Rush (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rush/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | “waterside plant”, “plant in marshes”, “beehive”, “descendant of ros”, “wood”, “rushes”, “descendant of fuada”, “haste” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,450 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,438 / 12 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun rush (“waterside plant, plant in marshes”). * Also as an English surname, from the archaic noun rush (“beehive”), from French ruche. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ruis (literally “descendant of Ros”), a name from ros (“wood”). Sometimes also translated from Ó Luachra due to confusion with luachair (“rushes”), see Loughrey. * Also as an Irish surname, translated/Anglicized from Ó Fuada (literally “descendant of Fuada”), compare Foody, from the noun fuad (“haste”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Rüsch, Ruesch, Rusch.

## What it means

Rush is grouped under forest.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | 14,980 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,861 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 46 | 2,660 |
| 2012 | 52 | 2,443 |
| 2013 | 60 | 2,200 |
| 2014 | 69 | 2,059 |
| 2015 | 67 | 2,103 |
| 2016 | 69 | 2,063 |
| 2017 | 85 | 1,801 |
| 2018 | 78 | 1,916 |
| 2019 | 83 | 1,839 |
| 2020 | 92 | 1,704 |
| 2021 | 122 | 1,477 |
| 2022 | 139 | 1,352 |
| 2023 | 151 | 1,281 |
| 2024 | 121 | 1,493 |
| 2025 | 126 | 1,434 |

## People named Rush

- Rush Limbaugh, American political commentator (1951–2021)
- Rush D. Holt, Jr., American scientist and politician
- Rush Holt Sr., American politician (1905–1955)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.