Malakhy
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malakhy has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Malakhy, 2014
1 in 741,000
Malakhy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Malakhy?
Malakhy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malakhy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malakhy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malakhys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malakhy was born before 2014 — so the typical Malakhy is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Malakhy 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2014 (5)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Malakhy
Malakhy is not the most common spelling — Malachi is, with 71.0% against Malakhy's <0.01%.
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.
Malakhy around the world
Where Malakhy 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.
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Malakhy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malakhy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Malakhy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.