Roque Family History

Spanish and Portuguese: from the personal name Roque (see Roch). Spanish: habitational name from any of the places in Gran Canaria called Roque or from El Roque in Tenerife.

Catalan (Roqué): variant of Roquer a habitational name from any of the places in Catalonia (Spain) named (El) Roquer from a derivative of Catalan roca ‘rock’.

French (southern): topographic name for someone who lived by a rocky crag or outcrop a variant of Roche.

Shortened (and altered) form of southern French Roquebrune or of its variant Rocquebrune (see Rocque).