Malakye
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAL-a-ky
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Malakye is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my messenger”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Malakye mean?
Hebrew: modern spelling of Malachi
“my messenger”
Variant of Malachi, the prophet whose book closes the Christian Old Testament.
Is Malakye a girl's or a boy's name?
Malakye is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malakye in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,065among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 125% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Malakye, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2012, with 12 boys.
Half of all the boys named Malakye in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 337 boys in the UK were given Malakye or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #185, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Malakye in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 7 | #2,875 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,378 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,008 |
| 2012 | 12 | #1,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #2,736 |
| 2010 | 5 | #3,478 |
| 2009 | 7 | #2,679 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,384 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,231 |
| 2006 | 4 | #3,522 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,399 |
| 2003 | 4 | #2,990 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #3,255 |
How popular is Malakye in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Malakye, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 50 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the boys named Malakye in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,402 boys in the US were given Malakye or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #86, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Malakye in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,695 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,102 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,514 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2015 | 21 | #4,543 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,011 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,403 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,622 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,477 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,452 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,746 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,142 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,009 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,101 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,321 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,132 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,271 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,697 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
Names like Malakye
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Muhammad Ibrahim Zakariya Mustafa Ismail Eesa Abdullah Matteo Yusuf Kai Hamza
Other spellings of Malakye
Names related to Malakye
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Malakye: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malakye, updated 20 October 2026.