The surname Cumbee
A surname, carried by 1,018 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C510
Origin
Variant of Cumby.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,018 people named Cumbee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. That is down 8.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,117.
#24,554
rank among US surnames
1,018
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
-8.9%
change since 2000 (was #21,727)
Who is named Cumbee
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Cumbee identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Cumbee has the Soundex code C510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C510.
Questions
- Where does the surname Cumbee come from?
- Variant of Cumby.
- How common is the surname Cumbee?
- 1,018 people in the United States had the surname Cumbee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. It ranked 24,554th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cumbee?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Cumbee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Cumbee getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,117 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,018 in 2010, down 8.9%.