# Comstock (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/comstock/  
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) | 10,390 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,437 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 29,716 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.9% (10,298 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

The noun sense is from Anthony Comstock (and the Comstock laws which he propagated). From combe (“valley”) + Old English stoc (“dwelling”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Comstock 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Comstock in the United States.

## People named Comstock

- Anna Botsford Comstock, American academic, artist, educator, conservationist (1854–1930)
- Anthony Comstock, American morals critic (1844–1915)
- John Henry Comstock, American entomologist (1849–1931)
- George Comstock, American astronomer (1855–1934)

## Similar surnames

Constantino, Constantine, Constant, Congdon, Constable, Considine, Constance, Cincotta, Connaughton, Constanza.

## 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.