Comer

At the 2020 census, 15,829 Americans bore the surname Comer — 2,237th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,829
Rank: 2,237th
How common: 1 in 18,900
Per 100,000: 5.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Comer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Comer

Jodie Comer (born 1993)English actress
Anjanette Comer (born 1939)American actress
B. B. Comer (1848–1927)American politician
James Comer (born 1972)American politician in Kentucky

People named Comer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Comer

Also a first name

Comer has been given to 787 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1914. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.