Malcolm
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#272
up +42 places
2025 births
1,257
up +164 births
All-time births
70,209
2% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1992
- 1,495 births
- Best rank
- #205
- in 1928
- First recorded
- 1880
- #417 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1973
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19921,495#206Peak
- 19911,299#230
- 20251,257#272
- 20211,230#281
- 19931,225#236
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #205 in 1928 · peak births 1,495 in 1992
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
70,209 boys · 119 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Malcolm has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.