Columbus

boys:

7.5k births since 1880

#1365 (70th percentile)

overall:

7.5k births since 1880

#3111 (60th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Columbus".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
7,517
Peak Births
187
Peak Year
1922
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
31.2%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#141
Current Rank
#911
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Columbus

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Columbus. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Columbus is pronounced as kuh-LUHM-buhs.

kuh-LUHM-buhs (3 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
K AH0 L AH1 M B AH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Columbus. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Columbus, please vote using the thumbs up button.

kuh-MIH-luhs (3 syllables)
1 name 47 births
K AH0 M IH1 L AH0 S

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kuh-MEE-luhs (3 syllables)
1 name 47 births
K AH0 M IY1 L AH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 L AH1 M B AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.