Comer

Where Comer comes from

The dictionaries list Comer as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,162 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Peak, #999
    8 babies named Comer — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Comer turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.