Last Name HOLCOMB

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Meaning	Local: Of Holcombe, parishes in counties Somerset, Devon, and Lancaster. Also a tithing in the parish of Newington, county Oxford.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	1,120 (2000 US census)	959 (1990 US census)

Count	28,668 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.23%, or 25867 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
5.93%, or 1700 total occurrences, as black,
0.38%, or 109 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.71%, or 204 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.29%, or 370 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.46%, or 419 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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