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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a noisy person, from a noun derivative of Middle High German rūschen ‘to make a noise’.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a swamp, from Middle High German rusch(e) ‘reed’.

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