Malacai
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAL-uh-ky
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Malacai is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my messenger”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Malacai mean?
Hebrew: variant spelling of Malachi
“my messenger”
Malachi is the last of the twelve minor prophets, whose book closes the Old Testament in Christian Bibles.
Is Malacai a girl's or a boy's name?
Malacai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malacai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Malacai, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had fewer boys named Malacai than any year since 2011.
Half of all the boys named Malacai in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 497 boys in the US were given Malacai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #569, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Malacai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,693 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
Nicknames for Malacai
- Mal
Names like Malacai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Makai, Zakai, Messiah, Mateo, Nikolai, Mathias, Aziel, Makoa, Eliam, Thiago, Jaziel, Koa
Other spellings of Malacai
Names related to Malacai
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Malacai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malacai, updated 20 October 2026.