Malichi
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAL-a-ky
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Malichi 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 Malichi mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Malachi
“my messenger”
Malachi is the name of the last of the twelve minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
Is Malichi a girl's or a boy's name?
Malichi 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 Malichi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 61% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Malichi, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the boys named Malichi in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,402 boys in the US were given Malichi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #86, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Malichi in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,330 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,862 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,311 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,682 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,790 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,707 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,917 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,163 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,241 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,684 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,811 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,784 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,611 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,496 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,470 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,829 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,868 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,794 |
Names like Malichi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Omari Amari Kamari Malaki Jamari Mateo Armani Jakari Messiah Kobe Amiri Mordechai
Other spellings of Malichi
Names related to Malichi
More Hebrew names
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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, “Malichi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malichi, updated 20 October 2026.