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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a Germanic female personal name Hrodberga, composed of the elements hrōd ‘renown’ + bergō ‘protection’.
  • French : possibly a metonymic occupational name, from roberge, a term denoting a type of warship.
  • French : A Roberge from Normandy, France, is documented in Château Richer, Quebec, in 1667. The secondary surnames <xref>Lacroix</xref> and <xref>Lapierre</xref> are also recorded.

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