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The table below indicates the number of times the name Columbus has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Columbus**
Use of the Name Columbus for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
6,458	249	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Columbus has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Columbus last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1958, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Columbus**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	192	64
1881	216	51
1882	206	62
1883	221	49
1884	241	50
1885	257	41
1886	226	56
1887	250	40
1888	227	60
1889	263	40
1890	260	43
1891	257	39
1892	261	47
1893	268	43
1894	275	41
1895	274	42
1896	301	38
1897	317	34
1898	269	44
1899	274	40
1900	315	45
1901	348	28
1902	275	47
1903	346	31
1904	329	37
1905	330	37
1906	350	35
1907	353	39
1908	317	48
1909	327	50
1910	422	41
1911	390	53
1912	494	64
1913	424	103
1914	459	110
1915	470	137
1916	491	134
1917	477	145
1918	485	151
1919	462	165
1920	502	145
1921	508	148
1922	447	188
1923	461	177
1924	509	151
1925	493	152
1926	496	147
1927	514	140
1928	498	148
1929	519	128
1930	560	115
1931	554	111
1932	573	106
1933	561	104
1934	572	107
1935	597	94
1936	618	89
1937	558	109
1938	594	98
1939	604	93
1940	658	84
1941	601	99
1942	679	91
1943	646	97
1944	646	92
1945	705	74
1946	782	72
1947	730	88
1948	720	87
1949	770	80
1950	740	85
1951	820	73
1952	816	74
1953	886	65
1954	843	74
1955	897	68
1956	955	61
1957	965	62
1958	998	58
Totals:		6,458		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Columbus as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Columbus appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 79 times during the last 125 years.

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