Entry № 2124 · Latin origin

Columba Columba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"A dove"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a dove".

Columba is a name of Latin origin, meaning a dove.

A dove — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Columba
Transliteration
Columba
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Columba stands.

Columba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Columbas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Columba.

The number behind Columba.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Columba reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.