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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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the mccallum family name as far back in history as possible.

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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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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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