Hanscombe

English

Alternative forms

• Anscombe, Handscomb

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Shillington, in Bedfordshire, from the Old English personal name Hān + -s- + camp (“open country”).

Proper noun

Hanscombe (plural Hanscombes)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hanscombe is the 28150^th most common surname in England, belonging to 135 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hanscombe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127.
• Forebears