Roch

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: From Germanic Hroc or Latinized Rochus; origin uncertain

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʀɔʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Roch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 7.2K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 11K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,000 people, est.

Sources
266 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Guadeloupe, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a Slavic short form of a saint's name, probably Rochus

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Roch is read(measured from records)

Roch is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French48%

    From Germanic Hroc or Latinized Rochus; origin uncertain.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    a male given name, equivalent to English Rocco

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Du nom germanique Hrocho, dérivé de hroc « corneille ».

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

    Du germanique hrok « repos » ou du latin Rochus, nom ancien.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Roch in English.

  • Spanish13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Roch in Spanish.

  • German7.3%

    from a Slavic short form of a saint's name, probably Rochus

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

    first/third-person singular preterite of riechen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Roch counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Roch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#689≈6,000 est.≈1 in 11K3.1KRoch266
ES Spain—1,0561 in 47K1.1KRoch27
US United States—8221 in 405K899Roch97
CH Switzerland—7761 in 11K776Roch48
CA Canada—≈750 est.≈1 in 50K1Roch111
BE Belgium—2601 in 45K260Roch37
GP Guadeloupe—≈63 est.≈1 in 7.2K5—5
MQ Martinique—≈13 est.≈1 in 34K5—4

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Roch is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Roech, Röch, Rõch

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Röch

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Rôch

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Roch, b. 1293Gustav Roch, b. 1839Heinz Roch, b. 1905André Roch, b. 1906Eugenio Anguiano Roch, b. 1938Siegfried Roch, b. 1959Edmon Roch, b. 1970Sébastien Roch, b. 1972Isabell Roch, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMonsieur,Dear Mr Roch, (English)
InformalBonjour Roch,Hi Roch, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 57 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Roch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,221
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,219
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020899#28,258
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000874#26,292
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010822#28,909
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024776#1,578
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991507—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008260#6,418
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—232#7,620
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Roch come from?
from a Slavic short form of a saint's name, probably Rochus Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Roch?
A machine transcription gives /ʀɔʃ/ (IPA) for French.
What are other forms of the name Roch?
In the etymology graph, Roque, Roc and Rokus are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Roch mean?
In French, From Germanic Hroc or Latinized Rochus; origin uncertain.
In which country does Roch have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Roch in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roch.
How common is the name Roch?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,056 people named Roch, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
How common is Roch compared with other names?
In France, Roch is the 689th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roch” — the 689th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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