Malakhi
#1,439 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malakhi has been given to 3,043 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,439 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 238 recorded.
Babies named Malakhi, 2025
1 in 26,500
Malakhi over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Malakhi?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 26,500
- 125 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 13,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,439
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,384 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malakhi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 18,384 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malakhi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malakhis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malakhi was born before 2017 — so the typical Malakhi is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,043
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (1,392).
Is Malakhi rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −129
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −397
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −101
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.95×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 52.5%
- Peak was 2019 (238)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.7% average annual change
Spellings of Malakhi
Malakhi is not the most common spelling — Malachi is, with 63.9% against Malakhi's 3.0%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Malakhi is used
Across 2016–2025, Malakhi was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 10,783 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 4,000
- 2Alabama1 in 4,348
- 3Mississippi1 in 4,545
- 4Georgia1 in 4,762
- 5Florida1 in 5,882
- 6Michigan1 in 6,250
- 7South Carolina1 in 6,250
- 8North Carolina1 in 6,667
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Malakhi around the world
Where Malakhi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2003–2024#3,255in 2024
- Canada2004–2021#2,619in 2021
- South Australia2010–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Malakhi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malakhi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Malakhi
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Malakhi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Malakhi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.