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Comfort

Girls' name

English word name: comfort

Comfort has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 2004, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Comfort, 2024

1 in 557,000

Comfort over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Comfort: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: comfort

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Comfort means

Comfort takes the English word comfort into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Comfort is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 249 girls were recorded with the name Comfort between 1974 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,811 in 1983.

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 Comfort?

Comfort had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Comfort sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Comfort. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Comforts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Comfort was born before 2003 — so the typical Comfort is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
249
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Comfort 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (12)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,811
1983

Where Comfort is used

Across 1910–2025, Comfort was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Comfort has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Comfort around the world

Where Comfort ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2004–2004
    #677
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Comfort by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,811
1983
Peak year
2004
12 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
249
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Comfort

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

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Sibling names for Comfort

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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