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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon) : habitational name from any of the five villages of this name in Devon or from Loscombe in Powerstock, Dorset, all probably named from Old English hlōse ‘pigsty’ + cumb ‘valley’ (see Coombe).

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