How common is the surname Cummings?

79,316 people in the United States had the surname Cummings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,893 Americans. It ranked 403rd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Cummings?

E. E. Cummings, American author (1894–1962), followed by Jim Cummings.

Where is the surname Cummings most common?

Wikidata records people named Cummings in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

How do you pronounce Cummings?

Cummings is /ˈkʌmɪŋz/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Cummings getting more or less common?

More common. 76,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 79,316 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Cummings

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 79,316 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈkʌmɪŋz/ 2 syllables Soundex C552

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cummings is more common than 99.8% 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 Cumings, Cumming.

Cummings 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 79,316 people named Cummings in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 3,893 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 76,707.

#403

rank among US surnames

79,316

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #372)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#394	Fuentes	81,006	3,811
#395	Baldwin	80,742	3,824
#396	Daniel	80,526	3,834
#397	Simon	80,460	3,837
#398	Velasquez	80,364	3,842
#399	Hardy	80,252	3,847
#400	Higgins	79,803	3,869

Who is named Cummings

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

73% of people named Cummings identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 73%
Black (not Hispanic) 20%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.3%
Two or more races 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Cummingss

27 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

E. E. Cummings
American author (1894–1962)
Jim Cummings
American voice actor, born 1952
Robert Cummings
American actor (1910–1990)
Irving Cummings
Actor, film director (1888–1959)
Constance Cummings
American actress (1910–2005)
Elijah Cummings
American politician (1951-2019)
Whitney Cummings
American actress, comedian and writer (born 1982)
Quinn Cummings
American writer, inventor and former child actress (born 1967)
Erin Cummings
American actress, born 1977
Ashleigh Cummings
Australian actress, born 1992
Richard Cummings
American actor (1858–1938)
Terry Cummings
American basketball player (born 1961)

Notable Cummingss come mostly from the United States (24), Australia (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Cummings

Cummings 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 Cummings 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 Cumings, Cumming.
How common is the surname Cummings?: 79,316 people in the United States had the surname Cummings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,893 Americans. It ranked 403rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cummings?: In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Cummings identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Cummings?: E. E. Cummings, American author (1894–1962), followed by Jim Cummings.
Where is the surname Cummings most common?: Wikidata records people named Cummings in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
How do you pronounce Cummings?: Cummings is /ˈkʌmɪŋz/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Cummings?: Cummings is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Cummings getting more or less common?: More common. 76,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 79,316 in 2010, up 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Cummings?: Cumings and Cummins.