What is "rocha"

Rocha is a Portuguese language surname. Its origin can be French, but it can be also a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname.Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering your Sephardic Ancestors and their World - Jeffrey S. Malka. - Best Judaica Reference Book (2002) by Association of Jewish Libraries;

http://www.sephardicgen.com/ - Most complete reference of Sephardic ames online;

http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/SephardimCom2009.htm - List of 41,000 Sephardic Surnames extracted from books by Harry Stein Archived version It literally means “ rock” or “ boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographical surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock".

Rocha may refer to:

• Rocha (surname), a Portuguese surname
• Rocha Department, a department in the east of Uruguay
• Rocha, Uruguay, capital city of the Rocha Department
• a community in Moca, Puerto Rico