Name meaning & stats
Columbus
Columbus (Latin origin). 2,538 US babies since 1940, peak 1941.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Latin
In US birth records
Peak year: 1941
2,538 US babies were named Columbus between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Columbus (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1941)