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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Rochmann) : variant of Rückmann (see Ruckman).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Rauchman, elaborated form of Rauch.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic name from the Yiddish female personal name Rokhe, a pet form of Biblical Rachel + man ‘man’ in the sense of ‘husband’.

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