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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of English Balcombe, a habitational name from Balcombe in West Sussex, which is named with Old English bealu ‘evil’, ‘calamity’ (or the Old English personal name Bealda) + cumb ‘valley’.

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