Comer
Comer is a boy's name that peaked in 1914, when it was the 1,127th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1969. About 160 Comers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Comer
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 787
- Estimated living today
- 160
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1914
- Best rank
- 1,127th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1900
How old the living Comers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 787 babies given the name since 1900, about 160 are alive — 20 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Comer is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Comer is most concentrated in Alabama (35.1×), Tennessee (8.7×), Georgia (5.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1914
The most popular boys’ names the year Comer peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.