Malakai
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #213 for boys in 2025, 1,657 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,657 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,830since 1988
Malakai over time
Rank among boys' names. Malakai has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #213 | 1,657 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #232 | 1,545 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #226 | 1,576 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #231 | 1,527 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #255 | 1,392 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #285 | 1,187 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #312 | 1,078 |
| 2018 | — | #383 | 839 | |
| 2017 | — | #390 | 815 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #426 | 732 |
| 2015 | — | #491 | 600 | |
| 2014 | — | #511 | 545 | |
| 2013 | — | #562 | 470 | |
| 2012 | — | #568 | 454 | |
| 2011 | — | #620 | 384 | |
| 2010 | — | #574 | 443 | |
| 2009 | — | #629 | 398 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #624 | 395 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #714 | 323 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #728 | 296 |
| 2005 | — | #720 | 282 | |
| 2004 | — | #767 | 236 | |
| 2003 | — | #884 | 191 | |
| 2002 | — | #898 | 180 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,208 | 111 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,864 | 31 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,711 | 30 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,303 | 20 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
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| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Malakai! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Malakai
- 19 spots since 2024 (#232 → #213)
- 72 spots since 2020 (#285 → #213)
- 278 spots since 2015 (#491 → #213)
- Biggest jump: 310 spots in 2002 (#1,208 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 46 spots in 2011 (#574 → #620)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #213 (1,657 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,031 boys born in 2025 were named Malakai (0.10%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Malakai (8,884) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #5,751 (1988) | #5,751 |
| 1990s | 136 | #2,711 (1998) | #5,425 |
| 2000s | 2,443 | #624 (2008) | #1,004 |
| 2010s | 6,360 | #312 (2019) | #484 |
| 2020s | 8,884 | #213 (2025) | #240 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Malakai in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Malakai, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 2,593 of them was named Malakai, which outranked 97.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).