Coombs

At the 2020 census, 9,612 Americans bore the surname Coombs — 3,611th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,612
Rank: 3,611th
How common: 1 in 31,100
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Coombs

Laura Coombs (born 1991)English footballer
Torrance Coombs (born 1983)Canadian actor

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

Surnames like Coombs

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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.