Coombes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Coombes or Coombs, a place-name in England meaning 'short straight valleys'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Coombes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 561K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 820K
- NONorway1 in 911K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Coombes itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 561K (inferred from the name graph)
9,780 named Coombs, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Coombs in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Person from Coombes or Coombs, a place-name in England meaning 'short straight valleys'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Coombes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,780as Coombs | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Coombs | 15 |
| AR Argentina | 81 | 1 in 561K | 81 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 61 | 1 in 820K | 61 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 58as Coombs | 1 in 1.7K | 58 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 29as Coombs | 1 in 596K | 29 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 25as Coombs | 1 in 223K | 25 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 3as Coombs | 1 in 38K | 3 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2as Coombs | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
9,780 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Robert Coombesb. 1808GBBritish rower (1808–1860)
- Allen J. Coombesb. 1951botanist
- Peet Coombesb. 1953GBEnglish guitarist and songwriter
- James Coombesb. 1956GBBritish actor
- Gaz Coombesb. 1976GBBritish musician
- Charly Coombesb. 1980USBritish musician
- Chad Coombesb. 1983NZNew Zealand association footballer
- Alec Coombesb. 1995GBScottish rugby union player
- Jamie Coombesb. 1996GBGibraltarian footballer (born 1996)
- Gavin Coombesb. 1997IEIrish rugby union player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,817 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 81 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 61 | #39,111 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 61 | #38,666 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Coombes mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Coombes or Coombs, a place-name in England meaning 'short straight valleys'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Coombes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Coombs, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Coombes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Coombes is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 561 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Coombes?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 81 people named Coombes, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coombesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Coombes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.