Given name & surname
Roch
“a glorious woman”
Roch is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a glorious woman.”
Original GermanRochus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a glorious woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Roch is a variant of Rocco. The history of Rocco gives this family its wider story. Rocco’s historical associations include a 14th-century saint, a Frenchman from Montpelier.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Roch through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 251
- 251 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 370 as a first name in 2020; 899 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Roch’s family of names
Roch has a diminutive in Rochelle. Roch shares a linguistic root with Rocco. In Polish usage, Roch has a conventional equivalent in the English form Rocky.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Roch has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Roch comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- RochusGerman, Latin
- RockEnglish
- RoquePortuguese, Spanish
- RocCatalan
- Rókusequivalent
- Roĥoderivative · Esperanto
- Rokcognate · Walloon, Slovene
- РохRussian
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People named Roch
- Roch Marc Christian Kaboréformer President of Burkina Faso ousted in a coup d'état on 23 Jan 2022born 1957
- Saint RochChristian saint (c.1348 - c.1376)1293–1327
- Roch VoisineCanadian singer-songwriterborn 1963
- Roch-Ambroise Cucurron SicardFrench abbé and instructor of the deaf1742–1822
- Roch-Ambroise Auguste BébianFrench sign language teacher (1789-1839)
- Roch La SalleCanadian politician1928–2007
- Roch Wamytanpoliticianborn 1950
- Roch BolducCanadian politicianborn 1928
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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