The Comment surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 197 people carried this name — #93,125 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,428,600 people counted. That is up 11% from 178 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
269 people named Comment live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Jura.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 96 people named Comment.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Doubs.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 24 people named Comment live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Comment in American newspapers,
1903–1914.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,978,725 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Comment,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Comment 1848–1938
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Albert Comment 1894–1987 · jurist
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Jean-François Comment 1919–2002 · artist
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Bernard Comment 1960– · writer
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Bernard Comment 1960– · writer
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Damien Comment 1977–
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Comment.
- Come 207 · U.S. census
- Comeau 5,609 · U.S. census
- Comes 1,153 · U.S. census
- Comet 151 · U.S. census
- Comin 207 · U.S. census
- Commeau 104 · U.S. census
- Commet 130 · U.S. census
- Common 672 · U.S. census
- Comolli 292 · U.S. census
- Company 152 · U.S. census
- Compas 376 · U.S. census
- Compere 742 · U.S. census
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