Malcom
Malcom is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. Its best rank was 767th, in 1992.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 940.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1992186 births
- Best rank
- #767in 1992
- Since 1880
- 5,772people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,772 boys have been named Malcom in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 186 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1990s alone account for 20%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Malcom | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 27 | |
| 1890s | 25 | |
| 1900s | 35 | |
| 1910s | 242 | |
| 1920s | 430 | |
| 1930s | 332 | |
| 1940s | 298 | |
| 1950s | 528 | |
| 1960s | 450 | |
| 1970s | 349 | |
| 1980s | 492 | |
| 1990s | 1,130 | |
| 2000s | 554 | |
| 2010s | 458 | |
| 2020s | 422 |
In 1992, its biggest year
Malcom was the 767th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Malcom
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Malcolmpeak 1992
- Claytonpeak 2000
- Willypeak 1993
- Manuelpeak 2005
- Victorpeak 1990
- Gregoriopeak 1993
- Sterlingpeak 2024
- Dentonpeak 1994
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.