Columbia
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · Last seen for boys in 1926 at #4,201
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1882 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 647since 1882
Columbia over time
Rank among girls' names. Columbia has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | — | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
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| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
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| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,737 | 11 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,257 | 16 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,062 | 19 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,598 | 27 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,430 | 32 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,988 | 20 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,751 | 23 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,565 | 26 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,411 | 30 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,281 | 32 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,246 | 33 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,405 | 26 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,385 | 21 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,176 | 22 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,956 | 7 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,335 | 12 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,206 | 11 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,229 | 10 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,420 | 8 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,251 | 9 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,076 | 11 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,227 | 8 | — | |
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| 1899 | #1,278 | 7 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,047 | 11 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,061 | 9 | — | |
| 1893 | #955 | 10 | — | |
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| 1882 | #813 | 6 | — | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Columbia! It came in at #813, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1892, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Columbia is popular in 1882
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Columbia
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest drop: 106 spots in 1894 (#955 → #1,061)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1882 at #813 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1882–1893
- Highest: 1 in 17,975 girls born in 1882 were named Columbia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 231,456 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 33.7% of all girls named Columbia (218) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #813 (1882) | #813 |
| 1890s | 48 | #955 (1893) | #1,225 |
| 1900s | 78 | #1,076 (1903) | #1,373 |
| 1910s | 218 | #1,176 (1913) | #1,474 |
| 1920s | 189 | #1,430 (1922) | #2,153 |
| 1930s | 64 | #2,750 (1931) | #3,505 |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,349 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 16 | #12,070 (1997) | #13,207 |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 16 | #10,148 (2015) | #12,554 |
| 2020s | 7 | #12,161 (2024) | #12,161 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Columbia in 1882
Top girls' names in 1882
More about 1882
girls
107,847 girls got a published name in 1882; 1 in 17,975 of them was named Columbia, which outranked 20.9% of the 1,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #740Zadie7
- #740Zenobia7
- #740Zetta7
- #813Columbia6
- #813Albertina6
- #813Alda6
- #813Alwina6
- #908Affie5
- #908Albert5
- #908Albertha5
Tied with 94 names at #813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
- ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
- ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
- ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
- ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.