Comer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who makes or sells combs, or who combs wool or flax
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈkoʊmɚ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Comer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 18Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 20K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 20Kfew records
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 Comer 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
- 400 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
16,893 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kummer in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, AT Austria.
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 who makes or sells combs, or who combs wool or flax
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Comer 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 | — | 16,893 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Comer | 400 |
| DE Germany | #966 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Kummer | 140 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Comer | 170 |
| CH Switzerland | #336 | 2,281as Kummer | 1 in 3.7K | 2.3K | Kummer | 73 |
| AT Austria | #504 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Kummer | 65 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Comer | 54 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 21 | — | 5 |
16,893 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Comer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, Generous
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Portuguese, to eat
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In German, of Como (city in Lombardy, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aymara, Bener,modera dámete
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- B. B. Comerb. 1848USAmerican politician (1848-1927)
- George Comerb. 1858USWhaler, Polar explorer
- Sam Comerb. 1893USAmerican set decorator (1893-1974)
- Fred Comerb. 1893USAmerican racing driver (1893-1928)
- John Comerb. 1900USAmerican football player (1900-1950)
- Gary Comerb. 1927USAmerican businessman
- Anjanette Comerb. 1939USAmerican actress
- Douglas Comerb. 1949USAmerican computer scientist
- James Comerb. 1972USAmerican politician in Kentucky (born 1972)
- Jodie Comerb. 1993GBEnglish actress (born 1993)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #2,001 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,237 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Comer mean, and where does it come from?
- person who makes or sells combs, or who combs wool or flax Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Comer?
- In the etymology graph, Come is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Comer?
- In English /ˈkoʊmɚ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Comer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Comer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled comer.
- How common is the name Comer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,893 people named Comer in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Comer compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Comer is the 336th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/comerThe 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, “Comer” — the 336th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.