Columbia
Recorded 1882–2024 · United States
Columbia was most popular in 1916, when 33 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,299 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 652 people named Columbia.
Columbia over time
How old is the name Columbia?
Columbia first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1882, which makes it about 143 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 52 of the 144 years since.
How many people are named Columbia?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 652 American births named Columbia between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States.
How many babies were named Columbia in 2025?
Columbia was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Columbia getting more or less popular?
Columbia is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 10 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Columbia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Columbia is a girl’s name — 99.2% of the 652 Americans given it were girls and 0.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Where Columbia is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org