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The CUMBER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 495 41448 0 2
United States (1880 census) 179 20929 0 4
Change since 1880 +316 -20519 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 308 12511 0.001 7
Top States for CUMBER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 81 24141 0.000 4
Wisconsin 81 11635 0.002 15
North Carolina 44 13104 0.001 5
Virginia 40 15382 0.001 6
North Dakota 28 4436 0.004 44
Top States for CUMBER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 28 4436 0.004 44
Montana 19 8218 0.002 21
Wisconsin 81 11635 0.002 15
South Dakota 5 19586 0.001 7
Maine 8 16965 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CUMBER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CUMBER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CUMBER in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CUMBER by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CUMBER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CUMBER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CUMBER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CUMBER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 412 83.23
Black/African American 45 9.09
Asian/Pacific 17 3.43
Mixed Race 11 2.22
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CUMBER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CUMBER in historical publications

CUMBER. 1. The same as Comber. 2. " One of the A-Sax. words for an ensign or standard was cuvibor, whence probably Cumbra, the name of an A-Sax, chief, A.D. 756. (Roger of Wendover). One haA'ing or bearing a standard. Ferguson.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CUMBER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CUMBER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CUMBER

The following words are slight variants of CUMBER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.