girls:
51 births since 2006
#5665 (1st percentile)
boys:
14.6k births since 1988
#967 (79th percentile)
overall:
14.7k births since 1988
#2170 (72nd percentile)
The name Malakai is the #2,170 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,658 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 72.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #967 (78.9% percentile) for all time with 14,607 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,665 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 2006.
Malakai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Malakai is available in 35 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 9 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 Malakai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Malakai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 76.2% percentile (ranked #221) with 815 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 856 births per million (ranked 75.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Malakai is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #223 (75.6% percentile) with 856 births per million.
For girls, Malakai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #956) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Malakai ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 87.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malakai".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Malakai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.7% confident that Malakai is pronounced as MA-luh-KAI, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-luh-kai, at 26.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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