Given name & surname · also Norman
Roach
“rock”
Roach is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Roach goes back to Old French roche, meaning “rock.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Roach comes from Norman, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roach’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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