Rothrock
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Rothrock
Frequency: (1340)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: from Middle High German rōt ‘red’ + roc ‘skirt’, ‘tunic’; hence a nickname, probably for someone who habitually wore a red tunic.
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