Columbus
Columbus is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 192nd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1922187 births
- Best rank
- #192in 1880
- Since 1880
- 7,517people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,517 boys have been named Columbus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 187 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 187 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Columbus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 513 | |
| 1890s | 411 | |
| 1900s | 397 | |
| 1910s | 1,101 | |
| 1920s | 1,526 | |
| 1930s | 1,031 | |
| 1940s | 866 | |
| 1950s | 679 | |
| 1960s | 360 | |
| 1970s | 248 | |
| 1980s | 159 | |
| 1990s | 103 | |
| 2000s | 69 | |
| 2010s | 49 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Columbus was the 447th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Columbus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elzapeak 1922
- Guspeak 1921
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Alvapeak 1917
- Clempeak 1917
- Judgepeak 1919
- Claudpeak 1919
- Ciceropeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.