The surname Rushton
An English place surname, carried by 4,369 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R235
Origin
English origin
From Old English risċ (“rush, reed”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to rush + -ton.
Rushton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,369 people named Rushton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,667 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,170.
Who is named Rushton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Rushton identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Rushton has the Soundex code R235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R235.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Rushton come from?
- From Old English risċ (“rush, reed”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to rush + -ton.
- How common is the surname Rushton?
- 4,369 people in the United States had the surname Rushton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,667 Americans. It ranked 7,609th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rushton?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Rushton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Rushton?
- Rushton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Rushton getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,170 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,369 in 2010, up 4.8%.