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Typical of the province of Lecco and northern Milan. We find traces of this surname in Venice towards the end of the 1500s with the printer and publisher Sebastiano Combi. additions provided by Giacomo Ganza / Villa di Tirano (SO) Surname present mainly in the Lecco area, in particular in Valsassina: Cassina Valsassina (LC), Barzio (LC), Cremeno (LC) and Lecco. In the province of Milan they are significantly present only in Abbiategrasso and in the capital. The spread in the provinces of Bergamo and Sondrio is very sporadic. The surname derives from the toponymy. Dante Olivieri reports the district of Bormio, Combo, and claims that the surname derives from a dialect word meaning "valley, valley". Word that actually seems unknown in the Lombard dialects. By way of curiosity the French surname Lacombe and the British Combe also derive from the local toponymy, from words that in their respective languages mean "valley".
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