Comfort
given name · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps from a medieval nickname for a comforting person; or from Comports, Kent
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Comfort is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 532(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.7K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 532 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
perhaps from a medieval nickname for a comforting person; or from Comports, Kent
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Comfort 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #72 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 532 | — | Comfort | 97 |
| GH Ghana | #48 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 70K | Comfort | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Comfort | 40 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1 | — | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Comfort | 12 |
| US United States | — | 2,669 | 1 in 125K | 3.6K | Comfort | 292 |
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: Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)
Comfort 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, from ME/OFr comfort 'strengthening, encouragement, aid, succour, support'; first attested William, Richard Cumfort 1269 AssSo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, ME cumfort (OF confort strengthening, succour, from LL confortdre to strengthen). 2. habitation name from a lost place, possibly Comports near Birling in Kent or Compworthy near Oxted in Surrey. Vars.: Colhoun (N Ireland), Calhoun (U.S.). Colreavy see McIlwraith Var.: Comport.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Contentment, ease.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, encouragement, assurance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, physical comfort, ease
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Comfort Tylerb. 1764USAmerican pioneer (1764-1827)
- Silas C. Swallowb. 1839USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1839-1930)
- Louis Comfort Tiffanyb. 1848USAmerican stained glass and jewelry designer (1848-1933)
- Comfort A. Adamsb. 1868USAmerican electrical engineer (1868–1958)
- Pearl Buckb. 1892USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1892–1973)
- Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshankb. 1893GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (1893-1961)
- Comfort Ekpob. 1954NGVice Chancellor in Nigeria
- Comfort Momohb. 1962GBMidwife who specializes in the study and treatment of female genital mutilation
- Comfort Folorunshob. 2006NGNigerian female football player
- Comfort ClintonUSAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Comfort mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps from a medieval nickname for a comforting person; or from Comports, Kent Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Comfort have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 403 thousand people named Comfort in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled comfort.
- Is Comfort a male or female name?
- Comfort is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Comfort?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,669 people named Comfort in 2020, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
- How common is Comfort compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Comfort is the 72nd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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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, “Comfort” — the 72nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.