The whitcomb Surname
whitcomb Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Whitcombe or Witcombe. Whitcombe in Dorset and Witcombe in
Gloucestershire are named with Old English wid ‘wide’ +
cumb ‘valley’; Whitcombe, Isle of Wight, may have the same
etymology or alternatively the first element may be Old English
hwit ‘white’. Witcombe in Somerset is named with Old English
wiðig ‘willow’ + cumb.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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