Malichi
Malichi was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,203 among boys’ names; 522 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malichi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malichi?
#13,203 among boys’ names, 2025
Malichi fell from #5,892 in 2015 to #13,203 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 2.9 per million.
37 babies in 2004, the peak
Malichi peaked in 2004, when 37 boys were given it, #2,824 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,203 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,495 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,377 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,557 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,546 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,600 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,708 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,971 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,963 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,430 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,892 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,991 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,408 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,798 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,856 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,769 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,990 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,194 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,312 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,738 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,886 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,824 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,730 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,620 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,605 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,911 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,920 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,071 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,205 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,584 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,710 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malichi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malichi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malichi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malichi, and how old are they?
An estimated 515 Americans named Malichi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 669 people named Malichi (7 women and girls, 662 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 464 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 68,803 babies since 1880, Malichi is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 2,770 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 Malichi
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 Malichi and names like it
- Compare Malichi and MalachiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalichi peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malichi since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Malichi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malichi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.