Last name: ROCHE
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ROCHE : This last name is indexed 1,986,092 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ROCHE : 1: Irish (Munster) and English (of Norman origin): variant of Roach. Compare Roch.2: French: topographic name for someone who lived by a rocky outcrop or crag from Old French roche ‘rock’. In North America this surname is also a shortened form of the variant Laroche 2. Compare Deroche.3: German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name Rocco based on hrok ‘yell’ or hrōd ‘fame renown’.4: Spanish (mainly Aragon and Catalonia): of French origin (see 2 above).
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