Cumming
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from Irish Gaelic O Cuimm or Mac Cuimm, ‘descendant or son of Cuimm’, meaning literally ‘little crooked one’; (ii) probably from a Breton personal name from cam ‘bent, crooked’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cumming is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 109K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(i) from Irish Gaelic O Cuimm or Mac Cuimm, ‘descendant or son of Cuimm’, meaning literally ‘little crooked one’; (ii) probably from a Breton personal name from cam ‘bent, crooked’.
Sources 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)
Cumming 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Cumming | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Cumming | 192 |
| US United States | 3,047 | 1 in 109K | 3.3K | Cumming | 327 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Cumming | 165 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Cumming | 8 |
| GR Greece | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Cumming | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)
Cumming is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Later form of Comyn, a Norman family from Comines on the French-Belgian border; first recorded Willelmus Comyn, chancellor to David I (1124–53).
as a nameScottish Surnames
A later form of Comyn, a powerful family group of Norman origin from the 12th century, from the locality of Comines on the French–Belgian border. First on record is Willelmus Comyn, chancellor to King David I (reigned 1124–53). Walter Comyn, Earl of Buchan, was killed by Robert Bruce and his companions in the Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, in 1306.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, present participle and gerund of cum
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)
- Hugh Cumingb. 1791GBnot in their usual nameBritish botanist and conchologist (1791-1865)
- Alfred Cummingb. 1802USGovernor of the Utah territory (1802-1873)
- Robert C. Schenckb. 1809USnot in their usual nameUnion Army general (1809–1890)
- William Roseb. 1887USnot in their usual nameAmerican biochemist (1887–1985)
- Arthur Cummingb. 1889GBBritish figure skater (1889–1914)
- Dorothy Cummingb. 1895AUactress (1895-1983)
- John Cummingb. 1930GBScottish footballer
- Alan Cummingb. 1965GBBritish actor (born 1965)
- Charles Cummingb. 1971GBBritish writer
- Jamie Cummingb. 1999GBEnglish association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,906 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Scottish Surnames (Ross, 1994) | — | — | — |
| 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 Cumming mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from Irish Gaelic O Cuimm or Mac Cuimm, ‘descendant or son of Cuimm’, meaning literally ‘little crooked one’; (ii) probably from a Breton personal name from cam ‘bent, crooked’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Cumming have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Cumming in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cumming.
- How common is the name Cumming?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,047 people named Cumming in 2010, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cummingThe 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, “Cumming”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.