Malachi

girls:

274 births since 1991

#5442 (5th percentile)

boys:

60.6k births since 1880

#434 (91st percentile)

overall:

60.8k births since 1880

#951 (88th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Malachi is the #951 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 60,830 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #434 (90.5% percentile) for all time with 60,556 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,442 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 274 births since 1991.

Malachi has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1991 for girls). Birth data for Malachi is available in 135 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (135 years for boys and 29 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

The name Malachi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.

For boys, Malachi reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 84.4% percentile (ranked #143) with 1,347 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,347 births per million (ranked 84.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Malachi is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #143 (84.4% percentile) with 1,347 births per million.

For girls, Malachi reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #926) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Malachi ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 45.1% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malachi".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
274
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
2005
First Recorded
1991
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#926
Current Rank
#945
Female statistics
Total Births
60,556
Peak Births
2,775
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
84.4%
Current Percentile
84.4%
Peak Rank
#143
Current Rank
#143
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Malachi

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Malachi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 46.6% confident that Malachi is pronounced as MA-luh-kai, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-luh-KAI, at 41.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.

muh-luh-KAI (3 syllables)
6.9% confidence
M AH0 L AH0 K AY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AE1 L AH0 K AY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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