Columna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a column; a circular support
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kələmnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Columna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 27K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 93K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a column; a circular support
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Columna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Columna | 33 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #503 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Columna | 26 |
| US United States | — | 440 | 1 in 756K | 477 | Columna | 94 |
| ES Spain | — | 82 | 1 in 610K | 82 | Columna | 26 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Columna | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 10 | 1 in 510K | 10 | Columna | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Columna is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of coluna.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of columnă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, column, pillar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kolonna, tektonisks atbalsta elements
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cristina Columnab. 1964PHFilipino basketball player (born 1964)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 477 | #47,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 440 | #48,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 266 | #68,973 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 82 | #31,783 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 82 | #31,586 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10 | #5,577 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Columna mean, and where does it come from?
- a column; a circular support Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Columna?
- A machine transcription gives /kələmnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Columna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Columna in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled columna.
- How common is the name Columna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 440 people named Columna in 2010, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.
- How common is Columna compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Columna is the 503rd most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/columnaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Columna” — the 503rd most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.