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rocks Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish, northern Irish, and English: topographic name for someone living near a prominent outcrop of rocks (see Rock 1).
  2. German: probably a variant of Rochs, a Lower Rhine variant of Roch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rocks Families in the US in 1920
Number of rocks families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
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Patrick Rocks tony13250 10
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Rocks family in Magherafelt NI Martha Ahlquist 0
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Locate fathers family Patrick Rocks 2
Rock/Rocks Surname DNA breakthrough - Celtic - Norse Genes Austin Rock 0
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Cannaught, Ireland/Franklin, Pa Rocks Mavis E. Batt 7
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