Given name & surname
Rushton
“rush, reed”
Rushton is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rushton goes back to Old English risċ, meaning “rush, reed.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rushton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 126 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 215 as a first name in 2020; 4,215 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Rushton
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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