Colm
A boys’ name of Irish origin, meaning dove.
Babies a year
14
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Colm by the numbers
Colm was given to 14 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 28 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Colm. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bird
Like Colm, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
- Jonahdove2,523 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
- Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
- Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
- Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Colm
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