Colm
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Colm is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ireland. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘dove’; Irish form of Columba, still in use.
- IEIreland1 in 1K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 42K
- AUAustralia1 in 58K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 222 ●
- 1 in 88K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
18K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Kolum in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
‘dove’; Irish form of Columba, still in use
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #147 | 9,016 | 4.1K rec. | — | 29 | Colm | 139 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,898 | 3.3K rec. | — | 4 | Colm | 134 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,982 | 1.8K rec. | — | 1 | Colm | 83 |
| US United States | — | 911 | 7.2K rec. | 1 in 365K | 911 | Colm | 222 |
| CA Canada | — | 371 | 282 rec. | — | 1 | Colm | 64 |
| DE Germany | — | 297 | 325 rec. | — | — | Colm | 40 |
| JP Japan | — | 223 | 209 rec. | — | — | Colm | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 127 | 127 rec. | — | — | Colm | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 72 | 43 rec. | — | — | Colm | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 55 | 8 rec. | — | 38 | Colm | 7 |
| TH Thailand | — | 50 | 33 rec. | — | — | Kolum | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 36 | 42 rec. | — | — | Colm | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English22K80%
- Spanish7473%
- German5362%
- French5232%
- 4892%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 22,439 | 80% |
| Spanish | 747 | 3% |
| German | 536 | 2% |
| French | 523 | 2% |
| 489 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Colm is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic form of Latin Columba; see >Calum. ° Variant: Colum.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from Mac Coluim, see McCallum .
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Irish Gaelic form of Latin Columba; see CALUM . Variant: Colom (an older Gaelic form). Pet form: Cóilín .
as a word
In Irish, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Columba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1967 | 6 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 17 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 22 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 16 |
| 2003 | 26 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 14 |
| 2025 | 12 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1962–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Colm Wilkinsonb. 1944IEIrish tenor
- Colm Meaneyb. 1953IEIrish actor
- Colm Tóibínb. 1955IEIrish novelist and writer (born 1955)
- Colm Feoreb. 1958USAmerican-born Canadian actor
- Colm Ó Maonlaíb. 1966IEIrish actor
- Colm O'Donoghueb. 1980IEIrish jockey
- Colm Bairéadb. 1981IEIrish film director
- Ethan Ampadub. 2000GBnot in their usual nameWelsh association football player
- Colm Seoigheb. 2004IEIrish actor and musician
- Colm O'Murchufilm director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 31 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 911 | #13,313 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 1999 | 117 | #54 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2006 | 97 | #73 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2000 | 89 | #65 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2004 | 88 | #74 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2001 | 87 | #71 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2003 | 86 | #73 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2007 | 85 | #82 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2002 | 83 | #76 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 1998 | 82 | #66 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2009 | 76 | #99 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2005 | 74 | #86 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 180 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Colm?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Colm (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Colm have the most bearers?
- Colm is most frequently recorded in Ireland, where it is most often spelled colm.
- How common is Colm compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Colm is the 147th most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
- Is Colm a male or female name?
- Colm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Colm mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘dove’; Irish form of Columba, still in use
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Colm” — the 147th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.