Biddlecombe
English
editEtymology
editHabitational surname from a minor place in Somerset, from the Old English personal name Bitel + cumb (“short, straight valley, combe”).
Proper noun
editBiddlecombe (plural Biddlecombes)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Biddlecombe is the 7973rd most common surname in England, belonging to 807 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Biddlecombe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 156.