Boy name origins & meanings
- French : Red-haired; foxlike
How Popular Is The Name Russ
Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant spelling of Rouse.
- German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with hrōd ‘renown’.
- German (of Slavic origin) : from Old Slavic rusu ‘reddish’, ‘blond’, hence a nickname or an ethnic name meaning ‘Russian’.
- Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived by a scree, Middle High German ru(o)zze.
- In some instances the name referred to personal or business connections with Russia, the country of the Reussen, from Middle High German Riusse.