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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Rusch.
  • German and Swiss German : from a short form of any of the various personal names beginning with the Old High German element hrōd ‘renown’.
  • North German (Rüsch) : nickname for a quick or unkempt, unrefined person, from Low German rüsch ‘quick’; also ‘shaggy’, ‘bristly’.

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