girls:
12 births since 2022
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1880
#2214 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1880
#4814 (38th percentile)
The name Rush is the #4,814 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,201 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 37.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,214 (51.7% percentile) for all time with 3,189 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2022.
Rush has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2022 for girls). Birth data for Rush is available in 138 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (138 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rush has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rush reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 15.9% percentile (ranked #766) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 119 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rush ranks #766 for boys (15.9% percentile) with 82 births per million, which is 68.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rush reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #946) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Currently, Rush is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #946 (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rush".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rush. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rush is pronounced as ruhsh, which has 1 syllables.
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