Given name & surname · also Old English, Hebrew
Gomer
“complete”·“of the good fight”
Gomer is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “complete” (Hebrew and Old English) and “of the good fight” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Original Hebrewגמר
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “complete” (Hebrew and Old English) and “of the good fight” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Hebrew and Old English naming traditions.
The story
The name appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Gomer appears in Genesis 10:2, Hosea 1:3.
- Genesis 10:2
- Hosea 1:3
From biblical name research
Gomer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 399
- 399 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1968. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 217 as a first name in 2020; 1,171 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gomer’s family of names
Gomer has a related form in Gomar. Gomer has a related form in Gomir. Gomer has a related form in Gomor.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Gomer
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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