Malachi
Malachi stands at #134 nationally in 2025, and it is climbing. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 65,758 bearers and counting.
What Malachi carries
Malachi · Hebrew
“angel of the Lord”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Malachi’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Malachi, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Malachi since 1880
Malachi peaked in 2006 at #150; #134 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Malachi is most common
Among the states, Malachi takes its largest share in Alaska, 0.31% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Mississippi and Alabama next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Malachi
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Nathaniel
#140 in 2025 · Hebrew
Giovanni
#123 in 2025 · Hebrew
Eliza
#115 in 2025 · Hebrew
Gabriella
#105 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isabel
#177 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jeremiah
#88 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Malachi
How popular is the name Malachi?
Malachi stands at #134 nationally in 2025, and it is climbing. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Malachi mean?
The reference we cite records “angel of the Lord”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Malachi?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Nathaniel sits closest, with Giovanni and Eliza just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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