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The HOLCOMBE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,989 4105 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,019 5371 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +6970 +1266 +0.001 +10
Other Countries
Australia 336 4694 0.002 21
United Kingdom 723 6746 0.002 16
Top States for HOLCOMBE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,339 466 0.033 334
Georgia 1,201 892 0.015 147
Alabama 856 881 0.019 192
Texas 691 3303 0.003 33
North Carolina 612 1903 0.008 76
Top States for HOLCOMBE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,339 466 0.033 334
Alabama 856 881 0.019 192
Georgia 1,201 892 0.015 147
North Carolina 612 1903 0.008 76
Mississippi 115 2942 0.004 40

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HOLCOMBE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOLCOMBE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOLCOMBE in South Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOLCOMBE by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOLCOMBE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HOLCOMBE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HOLCOMBE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HOLCOMBE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 814 10.19
White (Hispanic) 74 0.93
Mixed Race 61 0.76
Asian/Pacific 28 0.35
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.25
White (Caucasian) 6,992 87.52

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HOLCOMBE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HOLCOMBE in historical publications

HOLCOMBE. Parishes, &c., in cos. Somerset, Lancaster, Oxou, and Devon.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HOLCOMBE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLCOMBE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HOLCOMBE

The following words are slight variants of HOLCOMBE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.