Komm
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of uncertain origin. Possibly a habitational name from Commen on the Mosel river or from Kommen in Hast Prussia; or a topographic name from Slovenian kom ‘hill’, ‘peak’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Komm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 1Mas Комм(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 486K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
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 Komm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 486K (inferred from the name graph)
267 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Комм in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
- Commenon(measured from records)
- Kommenin(measured from records)
- Sloveniankom(measured from records)
of uncertain origin. Possibly a habitational name from Commen on the Mosel river or from Kommen in Hast Prussia; or a topographic name from Slovenian kom ‘hill’, ‘peak’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Komm 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 | 267 | 1 in 1.2M | 286 | Komm | 11 |
| RU Russia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Комм | 80 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 988K | — | Комм | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | 22 | 1 in 486K | 22 | Komm | 7 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Комм | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
267 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Komm 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.
respelling of Kumm, a topographic name for someone who lived in a dale.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, singular imperative of kommen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Akan, a. quiet, stUl, silenty peaceable; ye or m6nye k.! be quiet! — adv. quietly y silently; oda ho k.» he lies there quietly; ofii adi k., the went out silently
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Luxembourgish, past participle of kommen
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)
- András Kommb. 1974HUHungarian sailor
- Konrad KommDEGerman translator
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 286 | #73,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 276 | #66,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 267 | #72,771 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #50,957 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Komm mean, and where does it come from?
- of uncertain origin. Possibly a habitational name from Commen on the Mosel river or from Kommen in Hast Prussia; or a topographic name from Slovenian kom ‘hill’, ‘peak’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Komm?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Komm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 267 people named Komm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled komm.
- Where is Komm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Komm is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 486 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Komm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 267 people named Komm in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kommThe 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, “Komm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.