Malakhi
Malakhi was given to 125 boys in 2025, #1,439 among boys’ names; 3,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,020 Americans named Malakhi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malakhi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malakhi?
#1,439 among boys’ names, 2025
Malakhi fell from #1,338 in 2015 to #1,439 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 68.9 to 73.2 per million.
238 babies in 2019, the peak
Malakhi peaked in 2019, when 238 boys were given it, #921 among boys’ names. The 125 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,439 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,310 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,147 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 183 | #1,143 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,162 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,042 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 238 | #921 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,171 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,115 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 180 | #1,094 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 132 | #1,338 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,501 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,454 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 78 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,456 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 92 | #1,683 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,345 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 95 | #1,637 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 94 | #1,646 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 73 | #1,867 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,681 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,333 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,578 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,047 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,325 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malakhi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malakhi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malakhi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malakhi, and how old are they?
3,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,043 Americans ever recorded as Malakhi. The median Malakhi alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,538 people named Malakhi (13 women and girls, 1,525 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,069 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 916 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Malakhi born?
The states with the most babies named Malakhi are Georgia, Texas and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 12 | #774 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,620 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,431 | 1.3× |
| California | 8 | #1,934 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #989 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,065 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #825 | 0.9× |
Where Malakhi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malakhi is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1999 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malakhi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,253 babies since 1880, Malakhi is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 125 of their 2,140 babies (5.8%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malakhi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Malakhi and names like it
- Compare Malakhi and MalakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMalakhi peaked in 2019.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malakhi since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Malakhi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malakhi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.