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How popular is “Columbia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Columbia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Columbia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Columbia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Columbia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Columbia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Columbia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Columbia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 100%
1910 12 0.000020315 12 100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 100%
1913 22 0.000019347 22 100%
1914 21 0.000014827 21 100%
1915 26 0.000014189 26 100%
1916 33 0.000017059 33 100%
1917 32 0.000015946 32 100%
1918 30 0.000013818 30 100%
1919 26 0.000012321 26 100%
1920 23 0.000010165 23 100%
1921 20 0.000008567 20 100%
1922 32 0.000013979 32 100%
1923 27 0.000011726 27 100%
1924 19 0.000007978 19 100%
1925 15 0.000006429 15 100%
1926 21 0.000009147 16 5 52%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

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