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Malcolm vs Malerie

American parents have registered 70,328 Malcolms since 1880, against 1,261 Maleries. Malcolm is still ahead, with 1,257 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Malcolm against Malerie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Malcolm Malerie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Malcolm has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Malcolm had 279 and Malerie had 45.

Side by side

  Malcolm Malerie
Total US births 70,3281,261
Most in one year 1,49588
Babies in 2025 1,25715
Estimated living today 48,0001,200
Median age today 3227
Peak year 19921987
Best rank 206th boys1,470th girls
Rank in 2025 272nd7,133rd
First recorded 18801983
Girls / boys 119 / 70,2091,261 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Malcolms alive today are over 32; half the Maleries are over 27. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Malcolm and Malerie.