Callum
Just 38 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Celtic name meaning "dove".
Callum Pronunciation
Callum is pronounced TSAHL-loom (/ˈt͡sallum/).
What Callum means
Where Callum comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Callum begins in the Gaelic Calum, which reaches back to the Latin columba, meaning dove. Its Celtic roots run through Scotland and Ireland, where the name belonged to monks and farmers alike. The most famous early bearer was Saint Columba, the Irish abbot who sailed to Iona in the sixth century and founded a monastery there. His Old Irish name, Colum Cille, means "dove of the church."
The dove sense is literal here. Columba was the Latin word for the bird, and the name kept that meaning as it passed into Gaelic and then into English spelling.
Today Callum reads as thoroughly Scottish, common on team sheets and class registers across Britain. It has no diminutive that stuck and no feminine pair in wide use. It stands on its own.
In a Polish classroom the name would sound foreign, though its meaning would not. Gołąb, dove, is a surname many Poles already carry. Callum says the same thing in Celtic dress.
How many people are named Callum
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Callum. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6323 among male names.
Callum as a middle name
Callum is a first name for 38 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3804th, between Caesar (7) and Camillo (7).
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#3802 Béla7
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#3803 Caesar7
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#3804 Callum7
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#3805 Camillo7
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#3806 Cao7