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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of the numerous places called La Roque or Laroque, from a southern and Picard form of roche ‘rock’ (see Laroche). In Canada, it is a frequent secondary, which has also been used independently since 1717; it is sometimes translated as Rock.

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