DesRoches
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/deɪˈɹoʊʃɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
DesRoches is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 128K
- USUnited States1 in 180K
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.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How DesRoches is read(measured from records)
DesRoches is one spelling over 2 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.
- English54%
The main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French38%
De des Roches, dérivé de Les Roches, nom de plusieurs localités en France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
DesRoches 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | DesRoches | 145 |
| FR France | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 218 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 1,849 | 1 in 180K | 1.9K | DesRoches | 234 |
| HT Haiti | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | DesRoches | 50 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | DesRoches | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- René Desrochesb. 1905FRFrench athletics competitor (1905-1990)
- Christiane Desroches Noblecourtb. 1913FRFrench egyptologist (1913-2011)
- Monique Desrochesb. 1948CACanadian ethnomusicologist, teacher
- Patrick Desrochesb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Dominic Desrochesb. 1971CACanadian philosopher
- Alex DesRochesb. 1988CACanadian basketball player (born 1988)
- Benjamin Desrochesb. 1989FRFrench rugby union player (1989-)
- Sophie Desrochesb. 2000CAresearcher and university professor
- Dave DesrochesCACanadian singer
- Nina DesrochesHTHaitian artist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #16,001 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 379 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 335 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 323 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 319 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 315 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 252 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 251 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 246 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 238 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name DesRoches mean, and where does it come from?
- The main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce DesRoches?
- A machine transcription gives /deɪˈɹoʊʃɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does DesRoches have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named DesRoches in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled DesRoches.
- How common is the name DesRoches?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,849 people named DesRoches in 2010, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/desrochesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “DesRoches”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.