Meaning and history
Malakai is the Fijian and Tongan form of Malachi and is also used as a modern English variant.
20062006: 296 births, rank #728
2007: 323 births, rank #714
2008: 395 births, rank #624
2009: 398 births, rank #629
2010: 443 births, rank #574
20112011: 384 births, rank #620
2012: 454 births, rank #568
2013: 470 births, rank #562
2014: 545 births, rank #511
2015: 600 births, rank #491
20162016: 732 births, rank #426
2017: 815 births, rank #390
2018: 839 births, rank #383
2019: 1,078 births, rank #312
2020: 1,187 births, rank #285
20212021: 1,392 births, rank #255
2022: 1,527 births, rank #231
2023: 1,576 births, rank #226
2024: 1,545 births, rank #232
20252025: 1,657 births, rank #213
Malakai rose from #232 to #213 for boys between 2024 and 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 1,657.