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The combe Surname

combe Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived in a narrow valley, Middle English combe or habitational name from a place named with this word (see Coombe).
  2. Irish: reduced form of McCombe (see McComb).
  3. French: topographic name from Gaulish cumba ‘(narrow) valley’, ‘combe’. Compare Lacombe.

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Distribution of combe Families in the US in 1920
Number of combe families
 18-33
 7-17
 1-6
 0
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