Edgecombe

English surname

"a village on the edge of a valley"

Edgecombe Origin and Meaning

The name Edgecombe is a boy's name meaning "a village on the edge of a valley".

There were various villages called Edgecombe (and Edgcumbe and Eggcumbe) in Old England, particularly in present-day Cornwall and Devon. Local families adopted it as a surname — habitational surnames were extremely common among the English.