Comberbach

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Cumberbatch, Cumberpatch

Etymology

From Old English Cumbra (“Cumbrian”) + bæce (“stream in a valley”).

Proper noun

Comberbach (countable and uncountable, plural Comberbaches)

1. A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Chester, England (OS grid ref SJ6477).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Comberbach is the 59571^st most common surname in England, belonging to 42 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Comberbach”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 357.
• Forebears