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roach Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a rocky crag or outcrop, from Old French roche (later replaced in England by rock, from the Norman byform rocque), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, such as Roach in Devon, or Roche in Cornwall and South Yorkshire.
  2. English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in Normandy, as for example Les Roches in Seine-Maritime, named with Old French roche, or from Roche Castle in Wales.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The roach name in History

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Distribution of roach Families in the US in 1920
Number of roach families
 340-677
 114-339		 1-113
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