# Lush (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lush/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,191 |
| US rank (2010) | 21,830 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 259,232 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.8% (1,278 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the original sense of the adjective lush (“relaxed, slack”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Lüsch, from several placenames in Germany, derived from the obsolete Middle High German liesche (“reeds”). Also East German of Slavic origin, such as Lower Sorbian łuža (“swampy land”), from Proto-Slavic *luža.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lush in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |

## Similar surnames

Lash, Lesh, Losh, Lish, Lusk, Luis, Luse, Luisi, Lewis, Leach, Lugo, Lake.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.