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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of numerous places so named, from Old French roche ‘rocky crag’, ‘stony outcrop’, or a topographic name from the same word. In Canada it is a frequent secondary surname, which has also been used independently since 1683; it is often translated as Rock.

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