Given name
Kolumban
“dove”
Kolumban is a masculine given name from Old Irish, meaning “dove.” It is used in Alemannic German.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Irish Columbán, built from Old Irish columb (“dove”) + án.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kolumban’s family of names
In Polish usage, Kolumban has a diminutive in Kolumbanek. In Polish usage, Kolumban has a conventional equivalent in the French form COLOMBAN. In Polish usage, Kolumban has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Kolumbán.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kolumban has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Irish roots to each of them.
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Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Kolumban
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