Melakai
Melakai was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,325 among boys’ names; 64 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 Melakai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melakai?
#10,325 among boys’ names, 2025
Melakai entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,325 in 2025.
8 babies in 2018, the peak
Melakai peaked in 2018, when 8 boys were given it, #9,357 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,325 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,485 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,799 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,515 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,451 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,357 | 4.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,370 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,395 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,784 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,010 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #11,712 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Melakai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melakai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melakai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melakai, and how old are they?
An estimated 63 Americans named Melakai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melakai
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.