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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from some minor place named with Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + cumb ‘combe’, ‘valley’, for example Claycombe near Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire.
  • Perhaps a variant of German Kleikamp (see Claycamp).

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