# Malakai (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/malakai/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,887 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,830 / 57 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,115, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Malakai and Tongan Malakai, equivalent to English Malachi.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 18,983 |
| 2007 | 6 | 16,797 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,394 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,872 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,921 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,477 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,801 |
| 2022 | 7 | 13,076 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,522 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,605 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 384 | 620 |
| 2012 | 454 | 569 |
| 2013 | 470 | 562 |
| 2014 | 545 | 514 |
| 2015 | 600 | 491 |
| 2016 | 732 | 427 |
| 2017 | 815 | 391 |
| 2018 | 839 | 383 |
| 2019 | 1,078 | 312 |
| 2020 | 1,187 | 285 |
| 2021 | 1,392 | 255 |
| 2022 | 1,527 | 231 |
| 2023 | 1,576 | 226 |
| 2024 | 1,545 | 232 |
| 2025 | 1,657 | 213 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 78 | 473 |
| 2012 | 107 | 389 |
| 2013 | 106 | 382 |
| 2014 | 91 | 442 |
| 2015 | 80 | 489 |
| 2016 | 88 | 459 |
| 2017 | 113 | 392 |
| 2018 | 100 | 422 |
| 2019 | 79 | 493 |
| 2020 | 86 | 456 |
| 2021 | 108 | 398 |
| 2022 | 111 | 381 |
| 2023 | 124 | 343 |
| 2024 | 123 | 357 |
| 2025 | 118 | 357 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.