Meaning not yet researched.
Malachi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,692 in 2025. Its best rank was #134 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.6% of babies named Malachi in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#134 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Malachi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,692 boys in 2025. Peak: #134 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,776 (2006).
In 2025, 2,692 US boys were named Malachi, making it the 134th most common boys’ name of the year, up 15 places from #149 in 2024. That is 268 more than the 2,424 boys named Malachi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #134, reached in this year, 2025. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,776, in 2006. For comparison, it was #160 in 2015 and #1,686 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malachi in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 66,048 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 24,685 babies named Malachi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,782 US boys were named Malachi; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,692. In 2025 that was about 1 in 635 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malachi ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #71 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 9 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Malakai (17,887 babies since 1880) and Malakhi (3,043 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malachy, Malichi and Malikhi are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mally.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Malachy (690), Malichi (522), Malikhi (313), Malechi (57), Malekhi (47), Malachia (31), Malachii (10), Malakhiy (7), Malakhy (5), Malachiah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 148 | #71 | #101 |
| Alabama | 65 | #74 | #87 |
| Mississippi | 33 | #81 | #114 |
| Michigan | 100 | #94 | #165 |
| North Carolina | 130 | #95 | #113 |
| Louisiana | 51 | #96 | #107 |
| Oregon | 39 | #100 | #159 |
| Indiana | 77 | #100 | #102 |
| Oklahoma | 45 | #100 | #99 |
| Tennessee | 88 | #102 | #80 |
| Missouri | 66 | #102 | #129 |
| Florida | 210 | #107 | #121 |
| Virginia | 78 | #108 | #110 |
| Maryland | 50 | #118 | #129 |
| Ohio | 109 | #123 | #159 |
| Nevada | 25 | #126 | #197 |
| Kentucky | 45 | #128 | #132 |
| Texas | 303 | #130 | #203 |
| Alaska | 7 | #132 | — |
| Illinois | 86 | #137 | #163 |
| Washington | 59 | #137 | #158 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #138 | #276 |
| Montana | 10 | #139 | #176 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #143 | #102 |
| Wisconsin | 43 | #150 | #181 |
| Pennsylvania | 86 | #152 | #176 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #156 | #103 |
| Arkansas | 24 | #156 | #125 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #156 | #128 |
| Kansas | 24 | #164 | #180 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #164 | #184 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #171 | #201 |
| California | 229 | #172 | #261 |
| Arizona | 50 | #176 | #202 |
| Colorado | 39 | #179 | #166 |
| Iowa | 23 | #183 | #232 |
| Idaho | 14 | #191 | #149 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #194 | #194 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #219 | — |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #223 | — |
| Utah | 23 | #231 | #253 |
| New Jersey | 40 | #242 | #223 |
| Maine | 5 | #257 | #172 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #261 | #238 |
| New York | 73 | #264 | #213 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #480 | #211 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,594 | 2,692 | #134 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,603 | 2,424 | #149 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,804 | 2,482 | #146 |
| 2022 | — | — | 2,307 | #161 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,786 | 2,324 | #167 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,630 | 2,402 | #156 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,199 | 2,454 | #160 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,111 | 2,514 | #154 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,582 | 2,549 | #153 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,447 | 2,634 | #154 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,483 | 2,602 | #160 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,644 | 2,400 | #178 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,739 | 2,337 | #174 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,882 | 2,329 | #167 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,794 | 2,353 | #163 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,025 | 2,416 | #161 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,402 | 2,352 | #166 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,390 | 2,459 | #160 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,332 | 2,710 | #155 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,541 | 2,776 | #150 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,718 | 2,553 | #162 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,680 | 2,246 | #179 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,039 | 1,919 | #194 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,128 | 1,673 | #210 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,824 | 1,325 | #253 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,614 | 767 | #351 |
| 1999 | — | — | 706 | #369 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,355 | 577 | #413 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,771 | 505 | #443 |
| 1996 | — | — | 414 | #504 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,150 | 359 | #531 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,819 | 271 | #631 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,801 | 247 | #655 |
| 1992 | — | — | 178 | #787 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,493 | 149 | #857 |
| 1990 | — | — | 119 | #955 |
| 1989 | — | — | 114 | #958 |
| 1988 | — | — | 90 | #1,045 |
| 1987 | — | — | 92 | #995 |
| 1986 | — | — | 83 | #1,020 |
| 1985 | — | — | 75 | #1,074 |
| 1984 | — | — | 67 | #1,104 |
| 1983 | — | — | 68 | #1,087 |
| 1982 | — | — | 51 | #1,315 |
| 1981 | — | — | 44 | #1,445 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,161 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,148 |
| 1978 | — | — | 41 | #1,463 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,281 |
| 1976 | — | — | 44 | #1,341 |
| 1975 | — | — | 53 | #1,163 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,489 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,572 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,053 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,583 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,830 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,099 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,677 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,332 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,315 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,147 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,375 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,413 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,090 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,044 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,631 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,614 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,072 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,155 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,798 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,276 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,173 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,477 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,910 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,811 |
| 1950 | — | — | 20 | #1,686 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,738 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,543 |
| 1947 | — | — | 14 | #2,132 |
| 1946 | — | — | 25 | #1,427 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,085 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,267 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,804 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,517 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,798 |
| 1940 | — | — | 24 | #1,388 |
| 1939 | — | — | 22 | #1,444 |
| 1938 | — | — | 19 | #1,593 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,887 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,138 |
| 1935 | — | — | 21 | #1,523 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,708 |
| 1933 | — | — | 22 | #1,485 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,158 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,282 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,791 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,699 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,342 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #2,001 |
| 1926 | — | — | 22 | #1,641 |
| 1925 | — | — | 22 | #1,658 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,818 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,086 |
| 1922 | — | — | 26 | #1,488 |
| 1921 | — | — | 18 | #1,954 |
| 1920 | — | — | 21 | #1,730 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,564 |
| 1918 | — | — | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,786 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,215 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,640 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,830 |
| 1913 | — | — | 21 | #1,135 |
| 1912 | — | — | 17 | #1,161 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,664 |
| 1910 | — | — | 12 | #970 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,226 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #928 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,469 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,353 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,156 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,234 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #899 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,427 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #1,019 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,036 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,185 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,065 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #791 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #943 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #881 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #801 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #734 |
| 1885 | — | — | 7 | #813 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #733 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #960 |
| 1880 | — | — | 10 | #624 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).