How common is the surname Roche?

18,940 people in the United States had the surname Roche in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,301 Americans. It ranked 1,895th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Roche?

In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Roche identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Roche?

Roche is /ɹoʊʃ/, one syllable.

Is the surname Roche getting more or less common?

More common. 17,905 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,940 in 2010, up 5.8%.

The surname Roche

A Norman surname, carried by 18,940 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ɹoʊʃ/ 1 syllable Soundex R200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roche is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

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

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 18,940 people named Roche in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,301 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,905.

#1,895

rank among US surnames

18,940

people in 2010

6.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.8%

change since 2000 (was #1,845)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,886	Gupta	19,057	16,201
#1,887	Oliveira	19,055	16,203
#1,888	McCain	19,032	16,222
#1,889	Medeiros	19,031	16,223
#1,890	Kraus	19,028	16,226
#1,891	Stacy	19,010	16,241
#1,892	Pettit	19,004	16,246

Who is named Roche

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

80% of people named Roche identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Roche

Roche has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

Other Norman surnames

All 128 Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Roche come from?: (Cornish village) Recorded as La Roche 1233; from Anglo-Norman roche (“rock”).
How common is the surname Roche?: 18,940 people in the United States had the surname Roche in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,301 Americans. It ranked 1,895th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Roche?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Roche identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Roche?: Roche is /ɹoʊʃ/, one syllable.
Is the surname Roche getting more or less common?: More common. 17,905 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,940 in 2010, up 5.8%.