Boy
Columbus
As a boy's name, Columbus is understood to mean "dove". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is seldom chosen in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
LatinLatin "columba"
EtymologyMeaning "dove"
Births by decade
1900s
397
1910s
1,102
1920s
1,526
1930s
1,030
1940s
866
1950s
678
1960s
360
1970s
248
1980s
159
1990s
103
2000s
69
2010s
36
Peaked in the 1920s · 6,574 total U.S. births since 1900