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    The surname Cumings

    A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 648 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C552

    Cumings: #34,835 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Cumings #34,835, 648 people Cumings: #34,835 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Cumings #34,835, 648 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cumings is more common than 78.5% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    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. Variant of Cummings.

    Cumings is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 648 people named Cumings in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 476,459 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 624.

    #34,835
    rank among US surnames
    648
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #34,342)

    Who is named Cumings

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Cumings identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cumings

    Cumings has the Soundex code C552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C552.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cumings come from?
    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. Variant of Cummings.
    How common is the surname Cumings?
    648 people in the United States had the surname Cumings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 476,459 Americans. It ranked 34,835th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cumings?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Cumings identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Cumings?
    Cumings is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Cumings getting more or less common?
    More common. 624 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 648 in 2010, up 3.8%.