The surname Coombes
A place surname, carried by 1,241 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex C512
Origin
Compare Coombs.
Coombes is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,241 people named Coombes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 248,788 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,179.
Who is named Coombes
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Coombes identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Coombes has the Soundex code C512, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C512.
Questions
- Where does the surname Coombes come from?
- Compare Coombs.
- How common is the surname Coombes?
- 1,241 people in the United States had the surname Coombes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 248,788 Americans. It ranked 21,157th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Coombes?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Coombes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- What type of surname is Coombes?
- Coombes is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Coombes getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,179 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,241 in 2010, up 5.3%.