Meaning and history
A common alternate spelling of Malcolm, an Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic Máel Coluim, meaning "devotee of Saint Columba." The name was borne by four medieval kings of Scotland and, more recently, by the American civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925-1965).
20062006: 59 births, rank #2,176
2007: 63 births, rank #2,139
2008: 58 births, rank #2,265
2009: 30 births, rank #3,551
2010: 45 births, rank #2,682
20112011: 49 births, rank #2,504
2012: 44 births, rank #2,716
2013: 40 births, rank #2,848
2014: 26 births, rank #3,891
2015: 49 births, rank #2,528
20162016: 39 births, rank #2,993
2017: 39 births, rank #3,006
2018: 48 births, rank #2,617
2019: 80 births, rank #1,868
2020: 81 births, rank #1,833
20212021: 74 births, rank #2,000
2022: 83 births, rank #1,892
2023: 90 births, rank #1,787
2024: 95 births, rank #1,735
20252025: 91 births, rank #1,771
Malcom moved from #767 to #971 for boys between 1992 and 1993. Its highest annual birth count came in 1992, with 186 births.