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welcome Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Devon and Warwickshire called Welcombe, from Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + cumb ‘broad, straight valley’.
  2. English: nickname for a well-liked person or one noted for his hospitality, from Middle English welcume, a calque of Old French bienvenu or Old Norse velkominn.
  3. Translated form of Canadian French Bienvenue, found in New England.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of welcome Families in the US in 1920
Number of welcome families
 21-40
 8-20		 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 45 - Messages: 206
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I'm a Welcome from Indiana Shawn Welcome 17
Claude Welcome family Pam Donnelly 12
Anne Bienvenue of Kaskaskia Bjcajun172 2
Obit; Michael J. Welcome 1953-2007 woodsman1953 0
Welcome Family corkeyofgobles3 0
OBIT: Nora (Cronin) Welcome, Lowell Sun, Lowell, MA-Jan. 19, 1929 Maureen 8
Mary Welcome TRVAK1 1
James Welcome, Wheatfield, NY kalotac 0
Welcomes/Wilcoms Bavaria to Md jn2131 0
Lewis N. and Etha Welcome topmob38190 0
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