Calum
The boy's name Calum has been in the national records since 1978, with 3,506 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 799th. About 3,500 Calums are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Calum
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,506
- Estimated living today
- 3,500
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 799th
- Rank in 2025
- 799th
- First recorded
- 1978
How old the living Calums are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,506 babies given the name since 1978, about 3,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
From Scottish Gaelic Calum, from Latin Columba, the name of a sixth century Scottish saint, one of the patron saints of Scotland.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Calums
- Calum Chambers (born 1995)English association football player
- Calum Scott (born 1988)English singer
- Calum Worthy (born 1991)Canadian actor
- Calum Davenport (born 1983)British footballer
- Calum Jarvis (born 1992)British swimmer
- Calum MacLeod (born 1988)Scottish cricketer
- Calum Hood (born 1996)Australian bassist
People named Calum with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Calum is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Calum is most concentrated in Utah (5.2×), Washington (2.3×), Arizona (1.9×), Minnesota (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Calum peaked:
Calum elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Calum | 7,979 | 24th |
| England and Wales boys | Calum | 5,958 | 91st |
| Ireland boys | Calum | 1,391 | 44th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Calum | 698 | 21st |
| France boys | Calum | 30 | 6,737th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Calum against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.