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Whitcomb Name Meaning
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.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

437,952 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitcomb
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13,133 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Whitcomb Families

  • Number of Whitcomb families
     171 - 340
     58 - 170
     1 - 57
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
  • Number of Whitcomb families
     47 - 92
     16 - 46
     1 - 15
     
    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
  • Number of Whitcomb families
     2 - 1
     2 - 1
     1
     
    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Whitcomb Family Origin

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Whitcomb Immigration Information

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Whitcomb Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

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