Last name: MALCOLM
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MALCOLM : This last name is indexed 63,452 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MALCOLM : 1: Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name Maol-Choluim ‘devotee of (Saint) Columba’.2: Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolcholuim ‘descendant of the devotee of Saint Columba’ (Irish Colum Cille literally ‘dove of the church’). In Ireland the personal name is often spelled Colm; in Scotland it has become Calum.
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