The surname Edgecomb
An English place surname, carried by 1,223 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex E322
Origin
English origin
Topographic surname, from Old English eċġ (“edge”) + cumb (“narrow valley”).
Edgecomb is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,223 people named Edgecomb in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 252,449 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,214.
Who is named Edgecomb
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Edgecomb identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Edgecombe
Edgecomb has the Soundex code E322, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E322.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Edgecomb come from?
- Topographic surname, from Old English eċġ (“edge”) + cumb (“narrow valley”).
- How common is the surname Edgecomb?
- 1,223 people in the United States had the surname Edgecomb in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 252,449 Americans. It ranked 21,393rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Edgecomb?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Edgecomb identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Edgecomb?
- Edgecomb is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Edgecomb getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,214 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,223 in 2010, up 0.7%.
- What are other spellings of Edgecomb?
- Edgecombe.