Calum Name Meaning & Origin
Calum
Origin of the name Callum:
Borrowed from the Scottish, Calum is a Gaelic form of the Latin Columba (dove). Var: Callum, Kallum. Short: Cal, Kal.
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Calvin the target guy
Salum
Cool Guy Cal
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"Dove" or "Messenger of peace"
- Famous real-life people named Calum
Calum Hood is an Australian bassist and singer from the band 5 Seconds of Summer
Calum Waldegrave is an Australian guitarist for the band Vices
Calum Chambers, English professional footballer, plays as a defender for Arsenal FC
( aka the pengest man you'll ever see in ur entire life )
Calum Von Moger is a professional body builder and actor who portrays Arnold Schwarzenegger- Calum in song, story & screen
Calum Buchanan from All Creatures Great and Small (book and t.v. series). He was a Scottish vet with a love of wildlife.
"Onece a pon a time, there was a turtle how lived in side a big big cave and had no family. It had a hard shell, it was my turtle. In the cave it had a dark cave too. It was too dark you coldent see becase the turtle was too small it was smalla then a bug. The turtle lade an egg. Today or tomorrow it had a bom on it and it blowd up. The end.
~ A Story By Calum T Hood