The Gomer surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,293 people carried this name — #20,512 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 227,300 people counted. That is down 8% from 1,412 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Gomer surname
From Biblical Hebrew גֹּמֶר (gōmer).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Gomer» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 82 people named Gomer.
2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Sarthe.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
51 people named Gomer live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 the Nordic population registers
97 people named Gomer is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Gomer,
with a public archive behind them.
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Joseph Gomer 1834–1892 · missionary -
Frederick Gomer d. 1926
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Joseph Gomer 1920–2013 · aircraft pilot
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Robert Gomer 1924–2016 · physicist
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Robert Gomer 1924–2016 · physicist
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Steve Gomer 1963– · television producer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gomer.
- Golling 187 · U.S. census
- Golly 353 · U.S. census
- Gomar 321 · U.S. census
- Gomas 124 · U.S. census
- Gombert 406 · U.S. census
- Gomel 167 · U.S. census
- Gomes 24,827 · U.S. census
- Gomez 365,655 · U.S. census
- Gomila 135 · U.S. census
- Gomis 160 · U.S. census
- Gon 418 · U.S. census
- Goncalves 8,000 · U.S. census
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