# Commons (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/commons/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,223 |
| US rank (2010) | 21,393 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 252,449 people |
| Change since 2000 | +11% (1,105 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* English and Irish (Mayo Tipperary and Galway): variant of Cummings. * English: variant of Common with post-medieval excrescent -s.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Commons in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Commons in the United States.

## People named Commons

- John R. Commons, American economist and historian (1862–1945)

## Similar surnames

Cummins, Cunningham, Cummings, Canning, Cumming, Chewning, Chowning, Channing, Cumings, Cunnington, Cuming.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.