How common is the surname Rusch?

4,703 people in the United States had the surname Rusch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,649 Americans. It ranked 7,113th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rusch?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rusch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rusch getting more or less common?

More common. 4,655 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,703 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Rusch

A German surname, carried by 4,703 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rusch is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As a German surname, from Middle Low German rusch (“rushes, reeds”), from Old Saxon rusk, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskijā. Compare Ruesch. * Also as a German surname Rüsch, shortened from names derived from Old High German hrōd (“fame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi. * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German rusch (“quick, hasty, rash”), compare *hurskaz. * Germanized from Lower Sorbian Roš, see Rosch. Compare Rush.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,703 people named Rusch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,649 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,655.

#7,113

rank among US surnames

4,703

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #6,692)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,109	Labonte	4,706	65,607
#7,110	Mattern	4,705	65,621
#7,112	Villalta	4,704	65,635
#7,113	Rusch	4,703	65,649

Who is named Rusch

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Rusch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rusch

Rusch has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rusch come from?: * As a German surname, from Middle Low German rusch (“rushes, reeds”), from Old Saxon rusk, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskijā. Compare Ruesch. * Also as a German surname Rüsch, shortened from names derived from Old High German hrōd (“fame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi. * As a north/Low German…
How common is the surname Rusch?: 4,703 people in the United States had the surname Rusch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,649 Americans. It ranked 7,113th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rusch?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rusch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rusch getting more or less common?: More common. 4,655 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,703 in 2010, up 1.0%.