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[Surname] McCollum - Irish Mccallum?
I love the Songs Of Praise presenter Claire McCollum and have read that she is Irish and so is her surname the Irish form of McCallum which I saw when looking for her last name that wasn't there?
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The variants are Mac Callum, Mac Callam, Mac Calliom, Mac Collum, Mac Collam and Mac Collom (note the Mac) and they come from Irish Mac Coluim, from colm 'dove'.
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