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newcomb Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a new arrival in a place, from Middle English newe-come(n) ‘recently come’, ‘just arrived’. The intrusive -b- is the result of the influence of place names ending in -combe (see Coombe).
  2. Americanized form of German Neukamm, possibly arising from a misinterpretation of its etymology as neu ‘new’ + Kamm ‘comb’ (see Neukam).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The newcomb name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the newcomb family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of newcomb Families in the US in 1920
Number of newcomb families
 185-367
 62-184		 1-61
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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