Malaki
Malaki was given to 158 boys in 2025, #1,258 among boys’ names; 4,791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,740 Americans named Malaki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malaki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Malaki mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Malaki is “a male given name originating from the Bible”
Ultimately from Hebrew מַלְאָכִי (mal’achi).
/maˈla.ki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Malaki?
#1,258 among boys’ names, 2025
Malaki fell from #990 in 2015 to #1,258 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.09 per 1,000.
278 babies in 2007, the peak
Malaki peaked in 2007, when 278 boys were given it, #783 among boys’ names. The 158 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,258 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 137 | #1,378 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,284 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,303 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,193 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,332 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,140 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,148 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 178 | #1,097 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 202 | #1,009 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 209 | #990 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,124 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 179 | #1,057 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 209 | #963 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 199 | #986 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 251 | #843 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 242 | #873 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 229 | #908 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 278 | #783 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 253 | #807 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 245 | #793 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 183 | #926 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 141 | #1,094 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,103 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,405 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,207 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,254 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,306 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,726 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malaki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malaki has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Malaki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malaki, and how old are they?
4,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,791 Americans ever recorded as Malaki. The median Malaki alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,282 people named Malaki (45 women and girls, 3,237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,150 |
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 Malaki born?
The states with the most babies named Malaki are Texas, Florida and Indiana, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,199 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,171 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 9 | #696 | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #571 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 7 | #822 | 0.5× |
| California | 6 | #2,364 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,200 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,228 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 6 | #841 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,229 | 0.4× |
Where Malaki is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malaki is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1989 it was given 1.5 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 Malaki 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, Malaki is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 158 of their 2,140 babies (7.4%), again the second most given.
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 Malaki
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 Malaki and names like it
- Compare Malaki and MalakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalaki peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malaki since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Malaki.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malaki alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.