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mccallum Name Meaning and History

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coluim ‘son of Colum’, a personal name derived from Latin columba ‘dove’ (now often found as Calum). This was the name of the 6th-century missionary known in English as St. Columba (521–97), who converted the Picts to Christianity and founded an influential monastery on the island of Iona.

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Distribution of mccallum Families in the US in 1920
Number of mccallum families
 61-119
 21-60
 1-20
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