Kolumba
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/koʊɫəmbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolumba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 858Kas Columba(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.3Mas Columba
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.7Mas Колумба
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kolumba itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 858K (inferred from the name graph)
53 named Columba
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, as Columba
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Колумба in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kolumba 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.
53 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Columba of Rietib. 1467ITnot in their usual nameItalian Dominican tertiary nun
- Columba Kang Wan-sukb. 1761KRnot in their usual nameKorean martyr, catholic blessed
- Colomba Gabrielb. 1858PLnot in their usual namePolish religious (1858-1926)
- Colombo Machado Sallesb. 1926BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian politician
- Colombo Costa Pintob. 1926BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian composer (1926–2004)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Kolumba?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊɫəmbə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kolumba have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 53 people named Columba, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kolumba most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kolumba itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Argentina's: the national register counts about 1 in 858 thousand people named Columba.
- How common is the name Kolumba?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 53 people named Columba, about 1 in 858 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kolumba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolumbaThe 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, “Kolumba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.