boys:
80 births since 2005
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
80 births since 2005
#7659 (1st percentile)
The name Malykai is the #7,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 2005.
Malykai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (first recorded for boys in 2005). Birth data for Malykai is available in 13 out of the 19 years between 2005 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Malykai reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #925) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2014, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Malykai ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 81.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malykai".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Malykai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.8% confident that Malykai is pronounced as MA-lih-kai, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-lih-KAI, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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