Malakai

What Malakai means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Malakai yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Malakai?

US: Rising: up from #491 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #489 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,657 boys got the name (#213 that year). First in the US records in 1988.

How common

• About 1 in 1,031 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,305 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,511 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (8.57 per 1,000 boys), NM (2.92 per 1,000 boys), ME (2.34 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Malakai is #213 in the US and #357 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Malakai were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Malaki158 US · 5 E&W
• Malikai129 US · 9 E&W
• Maliki21 US
• Malekai17 US
• Melakai7 US
• Malahkai5 US
• Malacai5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Malakai

Boys

• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*

For a sister

• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Elliana#139Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #301 in 2015, #139 in 2025
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Malakai’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.