Callum
Callum places #118 across the country in 2025, and rising year over year. The record does not even know it before 1983; since then, 16,051 American children.
What Callum carries
Callum · Gaelic
“dove”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
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Five printables for Callum, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Callum since 1983
Callum is at its all-time peak right now: #118 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Callum is most common
Among the states, Callum takes its largest share in New Hampshire, 0.67% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Vermont and Wyoming next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Callum
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Carson
#124 in 2025
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Colton
#103 in 2025
Colter
#157 in 2025
Callie
#175 in 2025
Callan
#190 in 2025
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
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About Callum
How popular is the name Callum?
Callum places #118 across the country in 2025, and rising year over year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1983, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Callum mean?
“dove” is the meaning our source sets down, of Gaelic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Callum?
Cora, Carson and Charlie sit nearest to Callum on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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