Malcome
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malcome has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Malcome, 1994
1 in 464,000
Malcome over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Malcome?
Malcome had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 464,000
- 8 of 3,715,972 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 241,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 321,966 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malcome sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 321,966 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malcome. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malcomes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malcome was born before 1954 — so the typical Malcome is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 25.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 55
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Malcome 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1988 (9)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.7% average annual change
Spellings of Malcome
Malcome is not the most common spelling — Malcolm is, with 91.4% against Malcome's 0.12%.
Malcome around the world
Where Malcome 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.
- France2000–2006#5,106in 2006
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Malcome by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malcome
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Malcome
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.