The name Malachi is of Hebrew origin, and means my messenger.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Malachi has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Malachi
Use of the Name Malachi for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
11,640
11,544
11,544
10,378
7,825
4,081
2,180
The table below indicates the number of times the name Malachi has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Malachi
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1880
624
10
1881
961
5
1882
733
8
1883
1884
1885
813
7
1886
735
8
1887
801
7
1888
882
7
1889
943
6
1890
791
8
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
899
8
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
926
10
1909
1910
970
12
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
992
92
1988
1989
955
114
1990
959
118
1991
863
148
1992
784
178
1993
656
246
1994
633
270
1995
532
360
1996
506
413
1997
445
503
1998
413
575
1999
371
702
2000
352
763
2001
252
1,318
2002
210
1,663
2003
194
1,901
2004
180
2,180
Totals:
11,640
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Malachi as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Malachi appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 29 times during the last 125 years.