Rus

Family name origins & meanings

• Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, and Romanian (of Slavic origin) : ethnic name for a Russian.
• Czech : descriptive nickname from the adjective rusý ‘strawberry blond’.
• Slovenian and Croatian (northern Croatia) : nickname from the adjective rus ‘red-haired’, or from the dialect word rus ‘cockroach’. Compare Ros 3.