Roche

Roche is the 1,924th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,333 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,300.

By the numbers

People: 18,333
Rank: 1,924th
How common: 1 in 16,300
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

(Cornish village) Recorded as La Roche 1233; from Anglo-Norman roche (“rock”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.9%
Hispanic or Latino 15.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Roche

Kevin Roche (1922–2019)Irish-born American architect
Stephen Roche (born 1959)Irish racing cyclist
Sophie von La Roche (1731–1807)German novelist, editor
Mazo de la Roche (1879–1961)Canadian writer
Otto de la Roche (born 1200)Duke of Athens
William I de la Roche (1300–1287)Duke of Athens
Guy I de la Roche (1205–1263)Duke of Athens
Anthony de la Roché (born 1700)English explorer

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

Surnames like Roche

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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.