Columbia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Columbia has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Columbia, 2024
1 in 478,000
Columbia over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Columbia?
Columbia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Columbia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Columbia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Columbias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Columbia was born before 1918 — so the typical Columbia is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 33.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 39
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (218).
Is Columbia rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (33)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.1% average annual change
Where Columbia is used
Across 1910–2025, Columbia was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 189,005 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Columbia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Columbia around the world
Where Columbia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Columbia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Columbia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Columbia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.