How Many People Are Named Comfort?
people named Comfort are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,395,040 people in the US has this name
Based on 249 babies named Comfort in Social Security records from 1974 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
12 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the English word comfort, ultimately from Latin confortare "to strengthen greatly", a derivative of fortis "strong". It was used as a given name after the Protestant Reformation.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Comfort in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Comfort alive today is about 24 years old, and 64% are under 30. Half of them were between 13 and 37 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Comfort first appears in the records in 1974 and was given most often in 2004, to 12 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1974 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Comfort has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #6,811, in 1983.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #6,811 (1983) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #12,960 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Comfort alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Comfort were born in California than in any other state: about 5 of those alive today.
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