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

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
274
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
2005
First Recorded
1991
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#845
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 next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

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

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

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Malachi. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Malachi, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ma-luh-KAI (3 syllables)
7 names 15.1k births
M AE0 L AH0 K AY1
MA-lih-KAI (3 syllables)
10 names 7.6k births
M AE1 L IH0 K AY1

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.