English: habitational name from places so named in Devon and
Somerset, most of which are most probably named with an Old English
personal name Bicca + Old English cumb ‘valley’. The
first element could alternatively be from bica ‘pointed ridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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