Gummery is a relatively rare surname extant mainly in the United Kingdom, North America and Australia.
In England in the 18th century it was concentrated in the county of Worcestershire and is a misspelling of Gomery or Gumery. By the time of the 1881 census of England and Wales it was still concentrated in the Midlands region, but had spread to other industrial centres in the country [1]. In the 1881 census of England and Wales there were 98 people recorded with the surname Gummery. In 2002 there were 242 persons with the surname Gummery in England and Wales, making it the 18,859th most common surname.