Comfort
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KUM-fert
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Comfort is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “comfort, consolation”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Comfort mean?
English: virtue name
“comfort, consolation”
Puritan virtue name, also widely used by Christian families in Ghana and Nigeria.
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Is Comfort a girl's or a boy's name?
Comfort is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Comfort in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 40% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Comfort, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Comfort in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Comfort in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 13 | #2,037 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 10 | #2,263 |
| 2005 | 8 | #2,555 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
| 1996 | 5 | #2,815 |
How popular is Comfort in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.
Half of all the girls named Comfort in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Comfort in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,417 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 |
Names like Comfort
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Coco Esme Piper Dua Meadow Indigo Aria Ariana Croia Savannah Chloe Sophia
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Comfort: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/comfort, updated 20 October 2026.