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The LAROCHE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,361 5911 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 301 14228 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +5060 +8317 +0.001 +14
Other Countries
Australia 11 81711 0 1
United Kingdom 76 24982 0 2
Top States for LAROCHE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 635 3222 0.004 40
Massachusetts 616 1469 0.010 97
New Hampshire 400 436 0.032 324
New York 296 6537 0.002 16
California 262 9949 0.001 8
Top States for LAROCHE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 400 436 0.032 324
Vermont 194 470 0.032 319
Rhode Island 206 668 0.020 197
Delaware 127 1074 0.016 162
Maine 177 1391 0.014 139

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LAROCHE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAROCHE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAROCHE in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAROCHE by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAROCHE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAROCHE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LAROCHE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 586 10.93
Native American/Alaskan 193 3.6
Mixed Race 134 2.5
White (Hispanic) 129 2.41
Asian/Pacific 25 0.47
White (Caucasian) 4,294 80.1

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LAROCHE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LAROCHE in historical publications


(French.) The rock, a lonely mass of stone. De La Roche, “from the rock.”

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


LAROCHE. Fr. la roche, the rock. See Eock. " Peter Crothaire, of the province of Bordeaux, came into England in the train of George, Prince of Denmark, and at the desire of his master assumed the name of Laroche." His grandson, James Laroche, was created a baronet in 1776. Burke's Ext. Barts.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LAROCHE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAROCHE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LAROCHE

The following words are slight variants of LAROCHE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.