The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Malcum | 3 | 1479 (armite); 1517 (commoun); c1550 (calp) |
| Maccolm | 1 | 1516 (crounar) |
| Malcollume | 1 | 1641 (chalmerlane) |
| Malcolme | 1 | 1637 (barne-bed) |