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Malcolm

Pronounced /ˈmæl.kəm/

Rank in 2024
#314
Born in 2024
1,088
Peak year
1992 · #206
Origin
Scottish Gaelic

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,088 boys were named Malcolm, about 1 in every 1,577.
  • It peaked in 1992 with 1,495 babies, ranked #206.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 68,941 boys have been named Malcolm since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Malcolm per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.5
    Greatest
  2. 0.5
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.3
    Gen Z
  7. 0.5
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 8,889 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Silent: 9,998 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,573 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,469 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,151 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,930 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 11,332 babies, 0.52 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Royal name in Scotland, anglicised from various historical Goidelic names equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim or Calum, Irish Maol Colm, Middle Irish Máel Coluim, Old Irish Máel Columb (literally “devotee of [Saint] Columba”); proper nouns derived from máel (“tonsured”) from Proto-Celtic *mailos, and columb (“dove”) from Latin columbus.

  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic or Goidelic, variant of Calum and Callum, feminine equivalent Malcolmina, equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim.
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Say it
/ˈmæl.kəm/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Malcolm, CC BY-SA 4.0.