Meaning and Origin
What does the name Columbia mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Australia says the name Columbia means "Rare beauty angelic gods gift".
- A user from South Africa says the name Columbia is of American origin and means "Goddess of America".
- A university in New York City
- A university town in central Missouri
- Capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina
- A town in west central Tennessee
- A North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring
From Christopher Columbus, the Latinized name of the European explorer. The supercontinent was named by John Rogers and Santosh Madhava Warrier in 2002.
- (poetic) America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.
- (dated) The female personification of the USA.
- The capital city of South Carolina, United States and the county seat of Richland County.
- A river in the United States and Canada, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
- A city, the county seat of Adair County, Kentucky.
- A city, the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi.
- A city, the county seat of Boone County, Missouri.
- A city, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee.
- A town, the parish seat of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
- A town, the county seat of Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
- A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
- Columbia University.
- Space Shuttle Columbia (named after the Columbia Rediviva).
- (geology) A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.
- Misspelling of Colombia.
Columbia was also found in the following language(s): Catalan and Latin