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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Coombs.
  • French : habitational name from any of various places in southern France, for example in Hérault, named Combes, from Latin cumba ‘narrow valley’, ‘ravine’, a word of Gaulish origin.

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