Malcom is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Malcom is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Malcom. In the SmartGenius ranking, Malcom is #2,151 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malcom.
Malcom is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1906, where the name Malcom was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Malcom and were born in the USA in 1906, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Malcom even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1894, it ranked on position 685 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Malcom was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Malcom has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 83 times and thus landed on position 1,701 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 83 boys with the name Malcom, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
You may not know anyone named Malcom, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Malcom. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Malcom living in one state or another. If your name is Malcom and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Georgia, which has the most people named Malcom relative to the population, you still have to ask 24,828 men and boys their names before you hear Malcom as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Malcom is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Malcom and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Malcom, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Cat
Orange
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Malcom
Malcom
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
L
C
O
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
L
C
O
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Malcom sounds like this:
