document updated 15 years ago, on Aug 4, 2008
How many other people have names like mine?
Newcum
The spellings "Newcomb" and "Newcombe" are far far more popular, and people frequently transcribe my name that way. Even variants such as "Newcome" and "Newcomer" are more common.
Still, there are a few of us real Newcums out there. There's a cluster in the midwest, and another group in Texas.
"Newcombe" means "new combe", or a "new glacial valley".[1][2][3] Though "newcomer" is possible as well.
David Newcum
- David Wesley Newcum (born 4 Feb 1959, died 5 Dec 2005), lived in various places in Texas, has a record. Heh.
- 2003, criminal trespass, then failed to appear in court
- 2004, possession of drug paraphernalia
- there's a game called "Dave Gnukem". That's just the game's name though; its author is David Joffe.
- David Newcomb, vice president for research and technology at the National Asphalt Pavement Association, Lanham, MD (he even had his 15 minutes of fame)
- LinkedIn has 8 "David Newcomb"s, 7 "David Newcombe"s, and 1 "David Newcome"