Comer
Masculine
Comer is a surname used as a first name, mainly in the American South, and it is also an ordinary English word that survives only inside two phrases. Where a particular family got it from is not something the record will tell you.
How old is the name Comer?
Comer first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Comer alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 200 people named Comer are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Comer most popular?
Comer peaked in 1907, reaching #999 nationally. See the whole 1907 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Comer
Braxton Bragg Comer was a cotton planter who built mills, got himself elected president of the Alabama railroad commission, forced the railroads to cut their freight rates, and then became governor. He raised taxes on corporations to pay for schools, doubled the length of the school year, and founded several colleges. He also supported the convict lease system and the disenfranchisement of Black voters, which is the ordinary and unresolvable difficulty of southern progressive politics in that period. His surname ended up on schools, streets and a county courthouse across the state, which is one plausible reason it turns up in front position on birth certificates there.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The surname has been traced both to an English occupational or descriptive term and to an anglicized Irish name, and the two are unrelated. As a first name it appears without explanation, in the ordinary pattern of surnames moving forward.
Pronouncing Comer
KUM-ur
Two syllables with the stress in front, said exactly like the English word. KOH-mur is occasionally heard from readers meeting it cold.
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1900
- Most boys named
- 191426 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #999reached in 1907
- Change vs 1967
- 0.0%5 in 1969, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Comers among us
people named Comer are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Comer sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly at first sight by nearly everyone and never needs spelling out.
- Two syllables and five letters: quick to write and easy for a child to learn.
- It sits in the large family of surnames Americans are used to seeing in front position.
- It is also an ordinary English word, which children and colleagues notice and mention.
- It reads as a surname to most listeners, which suits some families and not others.
- No origin is documented for the first name, so the meaning question has two candidates and no answer.
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Comer
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Frequently asked
- How many Comers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Comer are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Comer in 2025?
- Comer is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Comer with classmates?
- Comer will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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