Newcomb

Newcomb is the 2,569th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,736 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,736
Rank: 2,569th
How common: 1 in 21,800
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Nickname for a new arrival in a place, from Middle English neowecomen (“just arrived; newcomer”). The intrusive -b is the result of placenames ending in -combe, which is from combe (“wooded valley”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Newcomb described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Newcomb

Simon Newcomb (1835–1909)American astronomer

People named Newcomb with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Newcomb

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.