The surname Desrochers
A French surname, carried by 2,516 people in the United States.
Pronounced /dəˈɹoʊˌʃeɪ/ 3 syllables Soundex D262
Origin
French origin
Borrowed from French Desrochers. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,516 people named Desrochers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,713 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,434.
Who is named Desrochers
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Desrochers identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Derusha
Surnames that sound like Desrochers
Desrochers has the Soundex code D262, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D262.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Desrochers come from?
- Borrowed from French Desrochers. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
- How common is the surname Desrochers?
- 2,516 people in the United States had the surname Desrochers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,713 Americans. It ranked 12,357th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Desrochers?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Desrochers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
- How do you pronounce Desrochers?
- Desrochers is /dəˈɹoʊˌʃeɪ/, 3 syllables.
- Is the surname Desrochers getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,434 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,516 in 2010, up 3.4%.
- What are other spellings of Desrochers?
- Derusha.