What nationality is the last name Bush?

Question

What nationality is the last name Bush?

Answer 1

Surnames don't usually have nationalities, not having the ability to be born and all...surnames have places of origin..

The place of origin of Bush being the England.

Answer 2

It's difficult to determine nationality only by referring to surnames.  However, if you are referring to the family of President George W. Bush and his father, the former President George Herbert Walker Bush, that specific Bush family is primarily of English and German descent, in addition to small amounts of Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French, Norman, and Swedish descent.

Richard Bush (c. 1696-1732 in Bristol, Plymouth Colony) is believed to be the earliest known patrilineal member of that particular Bush family in North America, which would make him English. George W. Bush is descended from Charlemagne eight or possibly nine times.  He is also descended from Mayflower passengers John Howland, John Tilley, Henry Simpson, and probably Francis Cooke.

Answer 3

The BUSH Surname Meaning and History

1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name.

2. Americanized spelling of German Busch - topographic name for someone who lived by a thicket or wood, from Middle High German busch ‘bush’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Busch-fami...

Answer 4

Surname: Bush

This is not only one of the earliest of all recorded surnames in the "Old World" (see below), it is also one of the very first in the "New", John Bush of London, being recorded as living at "Elizabeth Cittie, Virginea" on February 16th 1623, in the reign of King James 1 of England and V1 of Scotland (1603 - 1625). The name origin is either Norse-Viking, deriving from the pre 9th Century "buskr", or the Olde English pre 7th Century "busc"; in both cases it is topographical for one who lived by a particularly distinctive copse or thicket. The variant spellings include Bushe, Busk and Buske, and the early recordings include: Roger atte Buske, also known as Roger Del Bushe, in the Suffolk Pipe Rolls of 1305, and Roger Bussh, who may be the same person, in the Fines Court of Suffolk, 1309. Other early recordings from London Church Registers include: Agnes Bush, who married William Harnson on June 26th 1568, at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, whilst on December 16th 1629, one George Bush was christened at St. Giles' Cripplegate, perhaps a forebear of the American President, George Bush, who is of original New England stock. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard de la Busce, which was dated 1181, in the "Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.