McCallum

At the 2020 census, 10,026 Americans bore the surname McCallum — 3,472nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,800.

By the numbers

People: 10,026
Rank: 3,472nd
How common: 1 in 29,800
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Caluim (“son of Calum”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.8%
Black, not Hispanic 20.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McCallum

David McCallum (1933–2023)Scottish actor
Grace McCallum (born 2002)American artistic gymnast
Mike McCallum (1956–2025)Jamaican boxer
Ray McCallum Jr. (born 1991)American basketball player
Rick McCallum (born 1954)American film producer
Scott McCallum (born 1950)Wisconsin businessman and politician
John McCallum (1950–2025)Canadian economist and politician

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

Surnames like McCallum

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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.