Malakai

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Malakai: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Malakai: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #78, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#78highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2022
1998	#1642
2000	#3036
2001	#1467
2002	#753
2003	#558
2004	#555
2005	#590
2006	#458
2007	#543
2008	#405
2009	#385
2010	#386
2011	#473
2012	#389
2013	#382
2014	#442
2015	#489
2016	#459
2017	#392
2018	#422
2019	#493
2020	#456
2021	#398
2022	#381
2023	#343
2024	#357

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #100 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #357 among boys in England and Wales, #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #478 among boys in Scotland, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2022 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Malakai appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,997 births with the name.

Malakai across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Malakai's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2022 (1997)	#343 (2023)	#357 (2024)	27 of 28	1,997 (1997–2024)	124 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#365 (2019)	#365 (2019)	#404 (2024)	2 of 6	7 (2019–2024)	4 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#770 (2023)	#655 (2024)	#676 (2025)	3 of 3	11 (2023–2025)	4 (2024)

Malakai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Malakai in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	2 of 10	6
2000s	488	10 of 10	49
2010s	945	10 of 10	95
2020sbusiest	552	5 of 10	110

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 110 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 34, from 57 to 91.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Malakai appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in New Zealand in 2023.

Malakai's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#357	123	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#343	124	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#381	111	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#398	108	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#456	86	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#493	79	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#422	100	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#392	113	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#459	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#489	80	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#442	91	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#382	106	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#389	107	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#473	78	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#386	103	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#385	101	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#405	91	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#543	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#458	70	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#590	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#555	46	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#558	41	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#753	25	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#78	55	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #78, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 124 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Malaikah · #985, 24y
Malak · #265, 30y
Malakhi · #2076, 19y
Malaki · #837, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tiana · #77, 31y
Isaiah · #72, 30y
Amara · #68, 30y
Zoey · #66, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abi · #78, 30y
Campbell · #78, 31y
Demi · #78, 34y
Joey · #78, 32y

Malakai was ranked #78 in New Zealand · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Malakai and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Malakai without appearing here.

Malakai moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #753 and #3225.
Kerry Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3036 and #3036 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #753 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #753 and #3225.
Kristoffer Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3036 and #3036 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1467 and #2587.

Moved ahead of Malakai

Cillian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #442 and #550 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #489 and #404.
Filip Compare
In 2005 they stood at #590 and #615 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #458 and #443.
Hunter Compare
In 2010 they stood at #386 and #625 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #473 and #473.

Moved the opposite way to Malakai

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Malakai

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Malakai went from #2022 to #357 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in New Zealand in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Malakai

Malakai at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Malakai across 3 official records

Malakai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Malakai appears in

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Malakai at a glance

Malakai across 3 official records

Malakai by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Malakai

Malakai and the names beside it

Malakai moved ahead of

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