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Malcom

#1,775 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Malcolm

Malcom has been given to 5,864 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,775 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 186 recorded.

Babies named Malcom, 2025

1 in 36,400

Malcom over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malcom: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Malcolm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malcom means

Malcom is a variant of Malcolm.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Malcom → Malcolm. The family’s meaning is “devotee of [Saint] Columba”, recorded in English with the source elements Columb.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Malcolm.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,864 boys were recorded with the name Malcom between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 186 in 1992; its best national rank was #765 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,840 in 2020 to #1,775 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,551 in 2015 to #1,775 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Malcom?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,775
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malcom sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malcom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malcoms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malcom was born before 1986 — so the typical Malcom is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,475
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (1,130).

Is Malcom rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−26
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+65
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+776
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 1992 (186)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1992

Spellings of Malcom

Malcom is not the most common spelling — Marco is, with 36.5% against Malcom's 2.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Malcom is used

Across 2016–2025, Malcom was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 37,232 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 8,333
  2. 2Indiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Ohio1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Malcom around the world

Where Malcom ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1987–2024
    #5,732
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,011
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Malcom

People whose public names include Malcom, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Malcom in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Malcom. Linked forms have their own page here.

Malcolm

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Malcom by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 65
Best rank ever
#765
1992
Peak year
1992
186 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,864
Count in 2025
91

Names similar to Malcom

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Malcom

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Malcom, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarshalCaesarReyesLinoDentonMarcelinoFerminPascualNilesHilarioAbelardoLavon

Sibling names for Malcom

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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