Colombo

Colombo is the 6,835th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,736 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 63,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,736
Rank: 6,835th
How common: 1 in 63,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

From Italian Colombo, from colombo (“pigeon, dove”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Colombo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.0%
Hispanic or Latino 10.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Colombo

Emilio Colombo (1920–2013)Italian Prime Minister, politician
Giuseppe Colombo (1920–1984)Italian mathematician, astrophysicist and engineer
Giovanni Colombo (1902–1992)Catholic cardinal
Alberto Colombo (1946–2024)Italian racecar driver
Lorenzo Colombo (born 2002)Italian footballer
Roberto Colombo (born 1975)Italian footballer
Realdo Colombo (1516–1559)Italian physician
Felipe Colombo (born 1983)Mexican actor, singer and musician

People named Colombo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Colombo

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.