Columba
Columba is a unisex given name meaning dove which may refer to:
- Late Roman
Meaning & Origin of Columba
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Columba is a unisex given name meaning dove which may refer to:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Late Roman
The Story of Columba
The earliest SSA record of Columba as a baby girl name dates back to 1919, when 6 babies received it. 1919 was its biggest year on record, with 6 newborns named Columba — #4,251 in the national rankings. About 37% of every Columba on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Columba last appeared in the published SSA data in 2000, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 43 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Columba
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Columba. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Columbanus
Names that sound like Columba
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About the name Columba
Columba is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1919 and has accumulated 43 births in the dataset. Columba's peak popularity came in 1919 when it ranked #4,251. Use the chart and map above to compare Columba's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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