Altered spelling of English Balcombe, a habitational name
from Balcombe in West Sussex, which is named with Old English
bealu ‘evil’, ‘calamity’ (or the Old English personal name
Bealda) + cumb ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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