Rocha

53,864 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rocha in the 2020 census, making it the 612th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,549.

By the numbers

People: 53,864
Rank: 612th
How common: 1 in 5,549
Per 100,000: 18.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

from rocha, from ML. Cognate English rock.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 79.2%
White, not Hispanic 17.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rocha

Pedro Rocha (1942–2013)Uruguayan association football player and manager
Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021)Brazilian architect
Wellington Rocha (born 1990)East Timorese association football player
Glauber Rocha (1939–1981)Brazilian film director, actor and writer
Coco Rocha (born 1988)Canadian fashion model
Ricardo Rocha (born 1962)Brazilian footballer
Adi Rocha (born 1985)Brazilian association football player
Kali Rocha (born 1971)American actress

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

Surnames like Rocha

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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.