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rust Name Meaning and History

  1. Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent elm tree, Rust (Old High German ruost), or in northern Germany for someone who lived by a resting place or halt along a route, from Middle Low German ruste ‘rest’.
  2. English (chiefly East Anglia) and Scottish: nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Old English rust ‘rust’ (from a Germanic root meaning ‘red’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rust Families in the US in 1920
Number of rust families
 91-179
 31-90		 1-30
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