Colum peaked in Ireland in 1971 at #117, and is too rare now to appear in the latest official lists.
Colum as a boy’s name
US
England & Wales
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
Northern Ireland
Ireland
2016
#10,744 (6)
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2013
#10,728 (6)
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#605 (4)
2012
#10,770 (6)
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#403 (3)
#616 (4)
2011
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#540 (5)
2010
#8,803 (8)
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2009
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#604 (4)
2008
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#291 (5)
#346 (11)
2007
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#473 (5)
2006
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#354 (7)
2005
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#307 (3)
#268 (10)
2004
#8,927 (7)
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#305 (3)
#283 (9)
2003
#7,831 (8)
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#299 (3)
#375 (5)
2002
#10,667 (5)
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#267 (8)
2001
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#280 (3)
#273 (7)
2000
#9,112 (6)
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#214 (10)
The tide so far
Peaked in Ireland in 1971 at #117.
In the Ireland records since the data begins in 1964.