Meaning not yet researched.
Malakai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,657 in 2025. Its best rank was #213 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Malakai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#213 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Malakai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,657 boys in 2025. Peak: #213 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,657 (2025).
In 2025, 1,657 US boys were named Malakai, making it the 213th most common boys’ name of the year, up 19 places from #232 in 2024. That is 112 more than the 1,545 boys named Malakai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #213, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,657. For comparison, it was #491 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malakai in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 7 babies. In all, 17,887 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 8,914 babies named Malakai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,348 US boys were named Malakai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,657. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,031 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malakai ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #22 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Malachi (66,048 babies since 1880), Malika (5,003 babies since 1880), Malaika (2,662 babies since 1880) and Malikai (2,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malikah, Maleka and Malekai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Malikah (1,033), Maleka (403), Malekai (261), Malacai (169), Malaka (142), Malykai (88), Maliaka (62), Malahkai (46), Malyka (38), Malaikah (36), Malayka (26), Malicai (11), and more.
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.
No nicknames listed for Malakai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 25 | #22 | #262 |
| New Mexico | 19 | #104 | — |
| Idaho | 20 | #138 | — |
| Oregon | 30 | #139 | #206 |
| Maine | 9 | #147 | — |
| California | 231 | #170 | #385 |
| Florida | 128 | #175 | #315 |
| Nevada | 17 | #180 | #485 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #185 | — |
| Arizona | 46 | #190 | #367 |
| Washington | 46 | #190 | #375 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #191 | — |
| Texas | 200 | #192 | #603 |
| Utah | 29 | #192 | #437 |
| Ohio | 65 | #196 | #504 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #198 | #538 |
| Colorado | 32 | #206 | #355 |
| North Carolina | 60 | #209 | #387 |
| Indiana | 39 | #216 | #467 |
| Kentucky | 26 | #218 | #421 |
| Virginia | 39 | #227 | #420 |
| Iowa | 18 | #228 | — |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #228 | #679 |
| Michigan | 44 | #231 | #697 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #232 | — |
| Nebraska | 11 | #236 | #413 |
| Kansas | 16 | #243 | #639 |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #245 | #603 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #249 | #273 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #258 | #566 |
| Missouri | 28 | #258 | #480 |
| Georgia | 47 | #265 | #644 |
| Tennessee | 34 | #265 | #576 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #281 | #384 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #283 | #680 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #288 | — |
| Maryland | 19 | #295 | #564 |
| Illinois | 35 | #308 | #665 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #309 | #726 |
| Alabama | 17 | #330 | — |
| New York | 50 | #357 | #930 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #424 | #374 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #593 | #1,056 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,657 | #213 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,605 | 1,545 | #232 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,522 | 1,576 | #226 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,076 | 1,527 | #231 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,801 | 1,392 | #255 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,477 | 1,187 | #285 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,921 | 1,078 | #312 |
| 2018 | — | — | 839 | #383 |
| 2017 | — | — | 815 | #391 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,872 | 732 | #427 |
| 2015 | — | — | 600 | #491 |
| 2014 | — | — | 545 | #514 |
| 2013 | — | — | 470 | #562 |
| 2012 | — | — | 454 | #569 |
| 2011 | — | — | 384 | #620 |
| 2010 | — | — | 443 | #574 |
| 2009 | — | — | 398 | #629 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,394 | 395 | #626 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,797 | 323 | #717 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,983 | 296 | #729 |
| 2005 | — | — | 282 | #723 |
| 2004 | — | — | 236 | #767 |
| 2003 | — | — | 191 | #887 |
| 2002 | — | — | 180 | #900 |
| 2001 | — | — | 111 | #1,211 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,899 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,334 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,756 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,522 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,631 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,392 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,401 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,610 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,310 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,874 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,891 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,197 |
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).