What kind of name is holcomb? what decent?

Question: What kind of name is holcomb!? what decent!?

I just want to know what country they are from and what heritage the Holcomb name decended fromWww@QuestionHome@Com

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This is what www!.ancestry!.com has to say about the name!.
Holcomb Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ + cumb ‘valley’!.
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It is English!. After my mother died my father married a wonderful woman with a great sense of humour whose mother was a Holcomb!. They have a great big reunion every year in Houston County,Texas!. The old timers around there pronounce it Hawkum!.

She will be 99 this month!. She is a credit to the Holcomb name!.Www@QuestionHome@Com