Colm — #6232 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Colm

The Social Security Administration has registered 650 babies named Colm between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colm currently holds the #6232 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colm performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 189 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Colm shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Colm in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colm in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 650 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.