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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from one of the places in A Coruña or Gran Canaria called Roque or from El Roque in Tenerife.
  • Catalan (Roqué) : from a variant of Roquer, habitational name from any of the places in Catalonia named Roquer or El Roquer, from a derivative of Catalan roca ‘rock’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of French Rocque, a Picard and southern form of Roche.

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