Maccallum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From MacGilleChaluim, “son of the follower of Callum”, likely referring to Saint Columba (Columcille) or a later Callum
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Maccallum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 33Kas McCallum
- GYGuyana1 in 125Kas McCallum
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maccallum itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
10,229 named McCallum, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled McCallum in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From MacGilleChaluim, “son of the follower of Callum”, likely referring to Saint Columba (Columcille) or a later Callum. Associated with Argyll and Lorn.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Scottish Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maccallum counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,229as McCallum | 1 in 33K | 10K | McCallum | 14 |
| ES Spain | 39as McCallum | 1 in 1.3M | 39 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 27as McCallum | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24as McCallum | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 20as McCallum | 1 in 1.9M | 13 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 10as McCallum | 1 in 557K | 10 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 6as McCallum | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
10,229 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Maccallum is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Gaelic MacCaluim ‘son of the servant of Calum’; first attested Gilbert MacCalme 1631 Black (Ayr).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mungo William MacCallumb. 1854AUAustralian academic administrator
- William George MacCallumb. 1874CACanadian physician and pathologist (1874-1944)
- Peter MacCallumb. 1885GBAustralian oncologist (1885-1974)
- Mungo Ballardie MacCallumb. 1913AUAustralian journalist, broadcaster and poet
- Spencer MacCallumb. 1931USAmerican anthropologist
- I.R.A. MacCallumb. 1931politician
- Mungo Wentworth MacCallumb. 1941AUAustralian journalist (1941-2020)
- Malcolm MacCallumb. 1944GBBritish astrophysicist and physicist
- Martha MacCallumb. 1964USAmerican news host and anchor
- Taber MacCallumUSbusinessperson and one of the eight original crew members of Biosphere 2
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 881 | #28,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 832 | #28,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 810 | #27,901 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #229,072 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #166,463 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Maccallum come from?
- From MacGilleChaluim, “son of the follower of Callum”, likely referring to Saint Columba (Columcille) or a later Callum. Associated with Argyll and Lorn. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- What does the name Maccallum mean?
- Recorded meaning: From MacGilleChaluim, “son of the follower of Callum”, likely referring to Saint Columba (Columcille) or a later Callum.
- In which country does Maccallum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named McCallum, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maccallum most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maccallum is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maccallum?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Maccallum in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maccallumThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Maccallum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.