Columbia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Recently, the name Columbia has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Columbia. That means that a girl named Columbia is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Columbia.
Is the name Columbia a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1882 – at that time, it landed at position 766 with 6 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Columbia is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Columbia, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Columbia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Columbia born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Columbia born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The first name Columbia is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 136 Americans in total bear this name. And these 136 women are located in only three states: New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Columbia and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Columbia in relation to it’s female population is New Jersey. And yet even there, only one in 63,767 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Columbia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Columbia is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Columbia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Columbia, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Lion
Unicorn
Mouse
Butterfly
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Columbia
Columbia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
L
U
M
B
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
O
L
U
M
B
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Columbia sounds like this:
