The COLUMBUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,896	14444	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	418	11102	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+1478	-3342	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	40	30563	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for COLUMBUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	168	8806	0.001	14
Texas	166	10360	0.001	8
New York	165	11398	0.001	9
Florida	163	11046	0.001	10
Minnesota	115	6337	0.002	23
Top States for COLUMBUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	30	5326	0.002	24
Minnesota	115	6337	0.002	23
Oklahoma	65	6227	0.002	19
Massachusetts	94	8397	0.001	15
Nevada	29	7827	0.001	15

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COLUMBUS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COLUMBUS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COLUMBUS in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COLUMBUS by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COLUMBUS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the COLUMBUS surname.

Ethnic distribution of COLUMBUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	324	17.09
White (Hispanic)	124	6.54
Native American/Alaskan	69	3.64
Mixed Race	37	1.95
Asian/Pacific	16	0.84
White (Caucasian)	1,326	69.94

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COLUMBUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

COLUMBUS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to COLUMBUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLUMBUS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.