Col-Um
surname · Latin script
Col-Um is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Irish columb (“dove”), from Latin columba.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 141K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- IEIreland≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Colum in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 3 more.
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)
- Old Irishcolumb“dove”(measured from records)
- Latincolumba(measured from records)
From Old Irish columb (“dove”), from Latin columba.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Col-Um 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 141K | 3 | Colum | 105 |
| IE Ireland | #530 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Colum | 78 |
| US United States | — | 212 | 1 in 1.6M | 212 | Colum | 147 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 304K | 1 | Colum | 41 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 743K | — | Colum | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Colum | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Col-Um mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Irish columb (“dove”), from Latin columba. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Col-Um have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 467 people named Col-Um in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colum.
- How common is the name Col-Um?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Col-Um in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Col-Um compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Col-Um is the 530th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/col-umThe 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, “Col-Um” — the 530th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.