Laroche

5,372 people in the United States were counted with the surname Laroche in the 2020 census, making it the 6,114th most common in the country. That is about one person in 55,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,372
Rank: 6,114th
How common: 1 in 55,600
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

French surname, from several placenames or nicknames from la roche (“the rock”). Compare Roche.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Laroche described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Laroche

Guy Laroche (1921–1989)French fashion designer
Philippe LaRoche (born 1966)Canadian freestyle skier

People named Laroche with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Laroche

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.