The Rock Surname DNA project hopes to find linkage between the various Rock, Rocke, Rocks families and to determine if they share a Rock ancestor. It hopes to enable testers to find related Rock families. There are many questions as to how our Rock(s) surname came to be. Origin Rock is NOT an English word, because it is a common word in a common languages doesn't follow it is English. In Ireland the name comes from many sources and has many points of origin. Was it always Rock(s) or is it an anglisized form of names like de la Roche, Roche or Roache? Was it a Gaelic translation from MacConcarrigy? McIncargy, Mc Carrick, Carrig, Carrigy? Rock is found predominately in Antrim, Armagh, Longford, Roscommon, Galway, Leitrim, Cavan, Meath and Dublin. It can be found in other counties but generally it is confined to those mentioned above.