Malakye
Malakye was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,662 among boys’ names; 517 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malakye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malakye?
#8,662 among boys’ names, 2025
Malakye fell from #4,646 in 2015 to #8,662 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.3 per million.
50 babies in 2011, the peak
Malakye peaked in 2011, when 50 boys were given it, #2,495 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,662 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,833 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,107 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,698 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,261 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,868 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,901 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,233 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,556 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,246 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,646 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,083 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,463 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,675 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,495 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,504 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,859 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,215 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,077 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,172 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,402 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,376 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,362 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,827 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,025 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malakye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malakye has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malakye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malakye, and how old are they?
An estimated 512 Americans named Malakye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 350 people named Malakye (7 women and girls, 343 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 441 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,074 babies since 1880, Malakye is the fourth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,962 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Malakye
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 Malakye and names like it
- Compare Malakye and MalakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malakye since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Malakye.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malakye alive today were born 1997-2012.
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