# Cuming (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cuming/  
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 | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 138 |
| US rank (2010) | 124,548 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 2,237,287 people |
| Change since 2000 | -8.6% (151 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Cuimeinich, presumably from Anglo-Norman de Comyn, which was a surname of toponymic origin, either from Commin near Rouen or Comines near Lille.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cuming 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% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Cuming in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Cuming

- Frederick Cuming, British cricketer (1875-1942)
- Hugh Cuming, British botanist and conchologist (1791-1865)

## Similar surnames

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

## 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.