Malakai
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #213 for boys in 2025, 1,657 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,657 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,830since 1988
Malakai over time
Rank among boys' names. Malakai has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #213 | 1,657 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #232 | 1,545 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #226 | 1,576 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #231 | 1,527 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #255 | 1,392 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #285 | 1,187 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #312 | 1,078 |
| 2018 | — | #383 | 839 | |
| 2017 | — | #390 | 815 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #426 | 732 |
| 2015 | — | #491 | 600 | |
| 2014 | — | #511 | 545 | |
| 2013 | — | #562 | 470 | |
| 2012 | — | #568 | 454 | |
| 2011 | — | #620 | 384 | |
| 2010 | — | #574 | 443 | |
| 2009 | — | #629 | 398 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #624 | 395 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #714 | 323 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #728 | 296 |
| 2005 | — | #720 | 282 | |
| 2004 | — | #767 | 236 | |
| 2003 | — | #884 | 191 | |
| 2002 | — | #898 | 180 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,208 | 111 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,864 | 31 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,711 | 30 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,303 | 20 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
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| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Malakai! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Malakai is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#143 · 1 in 478
- Nevada#202 · 1 in 731
- Hawaii#207 · 1 in 639
- Oregon#238 · 1 in 923
- Idaho#253 · 1 in 863
Best ever in a state: #22 in Hawaii, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #143 | 16 | 1 in 478 |
| Nevada | #202 | 18 | 1 in 731 |
| Hawaii | #207 | 6 | 1 in 639 |
| Oregon | #238 | 18 | 1 in 923 |
| Idaho | #253 | 9 | 1 in 863 |
| Colorado | #260 | 25 | 1 in 1,032 |
| California | #305 | 134 | 1 in 1,541 |
| Indiana | #307 | 25 | 1 in 1,359 |
| Florida | #323 | 59 | 1 in 1,624 |
| Arizona | #328 | 24 | 1 in 1,425 |
| Tennessee | #330 | 23 | 1 in 1,544 |
| Washington | #336 | 23 | 1 in 1,500 |
| Wisconsin | #336 | 17 | 1 in 1,514 |
| Utah | #338 | 14 | 1 in 1,393 |
| Kentucky | #341 | 13 | 1 in 1,610 |
| Missouri | #345 | 19 | 1 in 1,597 |
| Arkansas | #358 | 9 | 1 in 1,503 |
| North Carolina | #359 | 29 | 1 in 1,730 |
| Oklahoma | #365 | 12 | 1 in 1,568 |
| Alabama | #371 | 13 | 1 in 1,740 |
| Michigan | #375 | 25 | 1 in 1,836 |
| Kansas | #381 | 9 | 1 in 1,615 |
| Virginia | #395 | 20 | 1 in 2,037 |
| Georgia | #397 | 25 | 1 in 2,088 |
| Massachusetts | #411 | 11 | 1 in 2,571 |
| South Carolina | #411 | 10 | 1 in 2,089 |
| Pennsylvania | #431 | 23 | 1 in 2,490 |
| Illinois | #439 | 25 | 1 in 2,387 |
| Minnesota | #445 | 12 | 1 in 2,222 |
| Mississippi | #455 | 6 | 1 in 2,165 |
| Texas | #479 | 64 | 1 in 2,732 |
| Iowa | #493 | 6 | 1 in 2,394 |
| Louisiana | #511 | 9 | 1 in 2,539 |
| Ohio | #527 | 18 | 1 in 3,184 |
| New York | #546 | 27 | 1 in 3,546 |
| Maryland | #558 | 8 | 1 in 3,298 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Malakai
- 19 spots since 2024 (#232 → #213)
- 72 spots since 2020 (#285 → #213)
- 278 spots since 2015 (#491 → #213)
- Biggest jump: 310 spots in 2002 (#1,208 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 46 spots in 2011 (#574 → #620)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #213 (1,657 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,031 boys born in 2025 were named Malakai (0.10%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Malakai (8,884) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #5,751 (1988) | #5,751 |
| 1990s | 136 | #2,711 (1998) | #5,425 |
| 2000s | 2,443 | #624 (2008) | #1,004 |
| 2010s | 6,360 | #312 (2019) | #484 |
| 2020s | 8,884 | #213 (2025) | #240 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Malakai in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 2,165 of them was named Malakai, which outranked 97.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.