Malachi

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Malachi is ranked 149th among boys in 2024 (2,404 births). Its best rank was 146th, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #149down 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2,4040.14% of boys
Peak year: 20062,776 births
Best rank: #146in 2023
Since 1880: 63,010people given the name

Babies named Malachi, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

63,010 boys have been named Malachi in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 2,776 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2006, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Malachi
1880s	58
1890s	30
1900s	51
1910s	156
1920s	185
1930s	172
1940s	183
1950s	155
1960s	108
1970s	390
1980s	746
1990s	3,525
2000s	20,778
2010s	24,568
2020s	11,905

In 2006, its biggest year

Malachi was the 150th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.

Names that rose and fell with Malachi

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.