Is "Gomer" a typical southern name

I doubt it. It is an Old Testament name. But some Southerners drew from the Old Testament for first names. I am from the Northeast and I remember my grandparents talk about a man they knew whose name was Gomer and he was probably born around 1890. That is my only personal experience with that name.

Lived in the south all my life, sorry, awl mah lahf, and I have never met an Opie.

As the other poster noted, Gomer is in the Bible.

So is Jethro.

A character in the Lil Abner comic strips was named Abijah Gooch, and sure enough, it's Biblical as well.

There are some people named Gomer. However, very few since the debut of the Gomer Pyle character. Lotsa luck to you and yours.

I was born and raised in the South (Mississippi, Tennessee and a while in Missouri, which is more Midwest). I once knew a goofy guy nicknamed Goover but that was given to him b\c of TAGS. So no, I've never known a real "Goober" or "Gomer" or "Opie". We have normal names like everyone else.

I've lived my whole life in Louisiana and Texas and have never known anybody named Gomer, Goober, Opie or any of the other stereotypical names Yankees think Southerners have.

I'm from the South, but I've never known a Gomer.

And the only "Opie" I've known was a redheaded kid nicknamed that after Ron Howard's character.

we had a old southern man in our mi.town named gomer.

The name, 'Gomer' is about as popular in the South as 'Goober' is. And, come to think of it what is the name 'Opie' short for?