Family name origins & meanings
- French : from a diminutive of Old French croc ‘hook’, a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a bend in a river or road, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks.
- This name is frequent in LA, most families tracing their ancestry to the marriage in 1758 of Yves Crochet, from Megrit, Brittany, to Pélagie Benoist, a refugee from Acadia.