Cummings

Cummings is the 418th most common surname in the United States, shared by 76,172 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,924.

By the numbers

People: 76,172
Rank: 418th
How common: 1 in 3,924
Per 100,000: 25.5

Where the name comes from

presumably from Anglo-Norman de Comyn, which was a surname of toponymic origin, either from Commin near Rouen or Comines near Lille. Variant of Cumings, Cumming.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.9%
Black, not Hispanic 19.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Cummings

E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)American author
Jim Cummings (born 1952)American voice actor
Robert Cummings (1910–1990)American actor
Irving Cummings (1888–1959)actor, film director
Harold Cummings (born 1992)Panamanian association football player
Constance Cummings (1910–2005)American actress
Steve Cummings (born 1981)British racing cyclist
Dominic Cummings (born 1971)British political strategist who served as chief adviser to UK prime minister from July 2019 until Nov 2020

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

Surnames like Cummings

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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.