Family name origins & meanings
- English (West Country) : habitational name from a place named with the Old English elements slāh ‘sloe’ + cumb ‘valley’, in particular Slocum on the Isle of Wight and in Devon.
- Anthony Slocombe or Slocum (1590–1674/75) came from Taunton, Somerset, England, to Taunton, MA, in 1637.