Cumberbatch
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cumberbatch is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 63rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: person from Comberbach, Cheshire, ‘stream of the Britons’.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 145K◐
- USUnited States1 in 189K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 469
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.5K ●
- Sources
- 220 ●
- 1 in 469 ◐
across 9 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Meaning & origin●
person from Comberbach, Cheshire, ‘stream of the Britons’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,758 | 14K rec. | 1 in 189K | 1.8K | Cumberbatch | 220 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,607 | 1.2K rec. | — | listed | Cumberbatch | 93 |
| GY Guyana | #176 | 388 | 344 rec. | 1 in 1.9K | 388 | Cumberbatch | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | 333 | 299 rec. | — | — | Cumberbatch | 48 |
| JM Jamaica | #597 | 279 | 280 rec. | — | — | Cumberbatch | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | 274 | 257 rec. | — | — | Cumberbatch | 36 |
| BB Barbados | #63 | 263 | 140 rec. | — | 51 | Cumberbatch | 41 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | #69 | 216△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 469 | 216 | Cumberbatch | 6 |
| RU Russia | — | 64 | 66 rec. | — | — | Cumberbatch | 6 |
| GD Grenada | — | 40△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 40 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 37 | 103 rec. | 1 in 467K | 37 | Cumberbatch | 11 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 19△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 19 | — | 8 |
Roughly 1.8K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 189K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English19K81%
- Spanish1.2K5%
- 5903%
- English (Trinidad & Tobago)3351%
- English (Guyana)1781%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 18,867 | 81% |
| Spanish | 1,237 | 5% |
| 590 | 3% | |
| English (Trinidad & Tobago) | 335 | 1% |
| English (Guyana) | 178 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Robert William Cumberbatchb. 1821GBBritish diplomat
- Henry Alfred Cumberbatchb. 1858UABritish diplomat
- Julian Cumberbatchb. 1877BBBarbadian cricketer
- Henry Carlton Cumberbatchb. 1900GBRoyal Navy submarine commander (1900–1966)
- Paula Congdonb. 1913GBnot in their usual name(died 2007)
- Timothy Carltonb. 1939GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Dave Cumberbatchb. 1964BBBarbadian cricketer
- Benedict Cumberbatchb. 1976GBEnglish actor (born 1976)
- Andell Cumberbatchb. 1993USAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Christopher Cumberbatchb. 2015Peerage person ID=669068
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cumberbatch?
- We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Cumberbatch (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cumberbatch have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.8 thousand people bear Cumberbatch in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cumberbatch.
- Where is Cumberbatch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cumberbatch is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 469 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Cumberbatch compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Cumberbatch is the 63rd most common surname of 11,288 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Cumberbatch mean?
- Recorded meaning: person from Comberbach, Cheshire, ‘stream of the Britons’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cumberbatch” — the 63rd most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.