Comfort
given name · Akan · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Comfort is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: perhaps from a medieval nickname for a comforting person; or from Comports, Kent.
- NGNigeria1 in 1.5K◐
- GHGhana1 in 5.3K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.8K ●
- Sources
- 258 ●
- 1 in 117K ◐
across 9 countries
123K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
perhaps from a medieval nickname for a comforting person; or from Comports, Kent
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #129 | 48,646 | 78K rec. | — | — | Comfort | 92 |
| GH Ghana | #123 | 3,235 | 2.1K rec. | — | 70K | Comfort | 60 |
| US United States | — | 2,624 | 34K rec. | 1 in 127K | 3.6K | Comfort | 258 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 2,078 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Comfort | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,463 | 2.7K rec. | — | listed | Comfort | 78 |
| AU Australia | — | 177 | 688 rec. | — | — | Comfort | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | 156 | 837 rec. | — | — | Comfort | 57 |
| IN India | — | 105 | 145 rec. | — | 10 | Comfort | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | 104 | 293 rec. | — | — | Comfort | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 96 | 61 rec. | 1 in 521K | 96 | — | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 88 | 37 rec. | — | 88 | Comfort | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 36 | 20 rec. | 1 in 283K | 36 | — | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Akan70K43%
- English64K39%
- Swahili18K11%
- Spanish1.3K1%
- Indonesian1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Akan | 70,288 | 43% |
| English | 63,539 | 39% |
| Swahili | 17,978 | 11% |
| Spanish | 1,302 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 1,089 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Comfort is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from ME/OFr comfort 'strengthening, encouragement, aid, succour, support'; first attested William, Richard Cumfort 1269 AssSo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, ME cumfort (OF confort strengthening, succour, from LL confortdre to strengthen). 2. habitation name from a lost place, possibly Comports near Birling in Kent or Compworthy near Oxted in Surrey. Vars.: Colhoun (N Ireland), Calhoun (U.S.). Colreavy see McIlwraith Var.: Comport.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Contentment, ease.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, encouragement, assurance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, physical comfort, ease
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 36 years between 1974–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Comfort Tylerb. 1764USAmerican pioneer (1764-1827)
- Silas C. Swallowb. 1839USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1839-1930)
- Louis Comfort Tiffanyb. 1848USAmerican stained glass and jewelry designer (1848-1933)
- Comfort A. Adamsb. 1868USAmerican electrical engineer (1868–1958)
- Pearl Buckb. 1892USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1892–1973)
- Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshankb. 1893GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (1893-1961)
- Comfort Ekpob. 1954NGVice Chancellor in Nigeria
- Comfort Momohb. 1962GBMidwife who specializes in the study and treatment of female genital mutilation
- Comfort Folorunshob. 2006NGNigerian female football player
- Comfort ClintonUSAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com | 2026 | 70K | #77 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,105 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 96 | #16,330 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 88 | #8,323 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 81 | #8,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #6,105 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36 | #16,876 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #12,276 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #14,686 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 109 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Comfort?
- We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Comfort (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Comfort have the most bearers?
- Comfort is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled comfort.
- How common is Comfort compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Comfort is the 129th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Comfort a male or female name?
- Comfort is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Comfort mean?
- Recorded meaning: perhaps from a medieval nickname for a comforting person; or from Comports, Kent
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Comfort” — the 129th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.