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The roche Surname

roche Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (of Norman origin): see Roache. This is the name of various important families in Munster (counties Cork, Wexford, and Limerick).
  2. French: topographic name for someone who lived by a rocky outcrop or crag, Old French roche.
  3. German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name, Rocco, based on hrok, of uncertain origin, or hrod ‘renown’.

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The roche name in History

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Distribution of roche Families in the US in 1920
Number of roche families
 250-498
 84-249		 1-83
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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