Malise is certainly a historical Gaelic name, popular among the Earls of Strathearn for example - see the wiki article for a list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Strathearn. and Malise
Graham is another important figure if I remember rightly.
In terms of modern use though I think they seem to be a dying breed lol (literally in this guys case -
http://chears.org/viewImage.php?id=25)
A lot of traditional highland names have been severely anglicised and name nerds has
Miles listed as a variant so I guess many potential Malise's might have become
Miles.
The wiki article confirms that it is indeed just a more simplified spelling of Maoliosa and it's variants. It also confirms the meaning as servant of
Jesus.
www.namenerds.com also has this. Going by the similarities of
Jesus / Iosa I think I'd be confident with that and maol/mael is definitely servant like in
Malcolm.
I never thought if the mal element on it's own, the overall similarity with malice bothers me more! I didn't think
Malcolm had any problems, but maybe it's different here.
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