Comstock

At the 2020 census, 9,949 Americans bore the surname Comstock — 3,497th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,949
Rank: 3,497th
How common: 1 in 30,000
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

The noun sense is from Anthony Comstock (and the Comstock laws which he propagated)..

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Comstock

Anna Botsford Comstock (1854–1930)American academic, artist, educator, conservationist
Anthony Comstock (1844–1915)American morals critic
Barbara Comstock (born 1959)former U.S. Representative from Virginia

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

Surnames like Comstock

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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.