Colm
Colm is a masculine given name of Irish origin. It is not an Irish version of Colin, but like Callum and Malcolm derives from a Gaelic variation on columba, the Latin word for "dove". The reason for the name's use for over a thousand years in Ireland and Scotland is out of respect for St Colmcille of Iona who was from a royal family in the north of Ireland and who evangelized the Scots. Malcolm translates as "Servant of St Columbcille." And the association with the word Dove also has religious origins with the dove being a symbol of the Holy Ghost.
People
- Colm Bairéad, Irish filmmaker
- Colm Brogan, Scottish writer
- Colm Byrne, Irish playwright
- Colm Collins, Gaelic football manager
- Colm Condon, Irish lawyer
- Colm Connolly, American judge
- Colm Connolly (journalist), Irish journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, and author
- Colm Cooper, Irish Gaelic football player
- Colm Coyle, Irish Gaelic football player and manager
- Colm Feore, American-born Canadian actor
- Colm Hilliard, Irish politician
- Colm Imbert, Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Colm Keegan, Irish singer, songwriter, and teacher
- Colm Magner, Canadian actor
- Colm Mangan, Irish general
- Colm Meaney, Irish actor
- Colm Mulcahy, Irish mathematician, academic, columnist and author
- Colm Ó Cíosóig, Irish drummer
- Colm O'Gorman, Irish activist
- Colm Ó hEocha, Irish scientist
- Colm Ó Maonlaí, Irish actor
- Colm O'Shaughnessy, Irish Gaelic football player and rugby player
- Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist
- Colm Doolan, Irish Endurance Athlete
- Colm Vance, Canadian soccer player
- Colm Wilkinson, Irish actor and singer
- Colm O'Rourke, Irish Gaelic football player and manager
Fictional characters
- Colm, in the video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- Colm O'Driscoll, one of the antagonists in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2
- Uncle Colm McCool, from the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls
- Col. Colm Corbec, in the Warhammer novel series Gaunt's Ghosts
- Colm Doherty, played by Brendan Gleeson, in the 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin
- Lord Colm MacKenzie, a supporting character in the first and second seasons of Outlander, in which he is the elder maternal uncle of James "Jamie" MacKenzie-Fraser.
- Colm, also known as Punch Up, from the video game Dispatch developed by AdHoc Studio.
Other uses
- × Colmanara, orchid genus abbreviated in trade journals as "Colm"
- COLM, Nasdaq code for Columbia Sportswear