The surname Comeaux
A French surname, carried by 7,066 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C520
Origin
French origin
Borrowed from French Comeaux.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 7,066 people named Comeaux in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,695 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,702.
Who is named Comeaux
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Comeaux identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 78%
- Black (not Hispanic) 19%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Comeaux has the Soundex code C520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C520.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Comeaux come from?
- Borrowed from French Comeaux.
- How common is the surname Comeaux?
- 7,066 people in the United States had the surname Comeaux in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,695 Americans. It ranked 4,972nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Comeaux?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Comeaux identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Comeaux getting more or less common?
- More common. 6,702 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,066 in 2010, up 5.4%.