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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for a dweller in a valley, Middle English atte combe ‘at the valley’.
  • English : habitational name from one of the places (in Northumberland and Yorkshire) named Acomb, from Old English æt ācum ‘at the oaks’.

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