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roch Name Meaning and History

  1. German and French: from a Germanic personal name of uncertain origin. It may have been originally a byname meaning ‘crow’. Compare Old High German hruoh, Old English hroc, an imitative formation, but Dauzat derives it from a root hroc ‘rest’. The name was fairly common in the Middle Ages and was sometimes bestowed in honor of a 14th-century saint (Latinized name Rochus) of Montpellier, remembered for his miraculous healings during an outbreak of the plague in northern Italy.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Rauch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of roch Families in the US in 1920
Number of roch families
 76-149
 26-75		 1-25
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Threads: 17 - Messages: 35
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Pauline Roch Carol Farr 2
Roch/Sarrasin/Martin Richard 0
Louis Roch and family, Philadelphia, 1900 and 1910 kh440 0
Roch Family name Gloria Roch 6
Looking for any information on Lillian ROCH, mother of Jack and Wallis Terri 5
Roch from Alsace-Lorraine region Kyleen_Jiannine 0
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Curtis R. Roch Jr. Sr. Michael L. James 2
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