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    The surname Holcombe

    An English place surname, carried by 8,103 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H425

    Holcombe: #4,390 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Holcombe #4,390, 8,103 people Holcombe: #4,390 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Holcombe #4,390, 8,103 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holcombe is more common than 97.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English holh (“hollow”) + cumb (“combe, narrow valley”).

    Holcombe 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 8,103 people named Holcombe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,103 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,989.

    #4,390
    rank among US surnames
    8,103
    people in 2010
    2.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,105)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,384Clem8,10738,084
    #4,386Montemayor8,10638,089
    #4,388Hynes8,10438,098
    #4,390Holcombe8,10338,103

    Who is named Holcombe

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    86% of people named Holcombe identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Holcombe

    Holcombe has the Soundex code H425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H425.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Holcombe come from?
    From Old English holh (“hollow”) + cumb (“combe, narrow valley”).
    How common is the surname Holcombe?
    8,103 people in the United States had the surname Holcombe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,103 Americans. It ranked 4,390th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Holcombe?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Holcombe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Holcombe?
    Holcombe is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Holcombe getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,989 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,103 in 2010, up 1.4%.