Colm
2025 SSA
About Colm
Colm is a popular Irish name for boys that could immigrate, especially with its peaceful meaning. Colm Toibin is a contemporary Irish novelist and critic, author of The Master and Brooklyn; Colm Meaney is an Irish actor. Pronunciation is two syllables instead of one, like Colin with an 'm' at the end. Colm is related to Columba, Colom, Colum, Callum, and Malcolm.
Pronounced KOHM.
As of October 2026, Colm ranked #6881 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2826 in 1965.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | #3,791 | 28 | 14.8 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Colm on lists
Famous Colms
- Colm Wilkinson
Irish tenor and actor
- Colm Meaney
Irish actor
- Colm Feore
Canadian,American actor
- Colm Keegan
Irish singer of band Celtic Thunder
- Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist, journalist, playwright and critic
- Colm McCarthy
Scottish television director
- Colm Magner
Canadian actor
- Colm Ó Maonlaí
Irish actor
- Colm Ó Cíosóig
Irish drummer of band My Bloody Valentine
Colm in pop culture
- Colm
character in the video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- Colm Corbec
character in the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett
- Colm Fahey
character in 'Six of Crows' by Leigh Bardugo
- Colm O'Driscoll
character in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2.