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acomb Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for a dweller in a valley, Middle English atte combe ‘at the valley’.
  2. habitational name from one of the places (in Northumberland and Yorkshire) named Acomb, from Old English æt acum ‘at the oaks’.

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acomb Family Facts

Distribution of acomb Families in the US in 1920
Number of acomb families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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