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Comer

Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Comer has been given to 787 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1914, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Comer, 1969

1 in 695,000

Comer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Comer: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Comer means

Comer is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Comer is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Comer is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Comer is pronounced /ˈkoʊmɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 787 boys were recorded with the name Comer between 1900 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1914; its best national rank was #1,013 in 1907.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Comer?

Comer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Comer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Comer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Comers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Comer was born before 1929 — so the typical Comer is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
117
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Choose a decade

1920s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (198).

Is Comer rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1914 (26)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,013
1907

Spellings of Comer

Comer is not the most common spelling — Roger is, with 31.7% against Comer's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Comer is used

Across 1910–2025, Comer was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 43,570 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 16,667
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Comer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Comer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,013
1907
Peak year
1914
26 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
787
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Comer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Comer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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