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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Harcombe, a habitational name from either of two places in Devon and Hampshire so named, probably from Old English hara ‘hare’ + cumb ‘valley’, or from various minor places named with this word, such as Harcomb Bottom in Devon and Gloucestershire, both named with Old English heorot ‘hart’ + cumb.

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