Malachi vs Malissie
American parents have registered 66,048 Malachis since 1880, against 449 Malissies. Malachi is still ahead, with 2,701 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Malachi Malissie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Malachi for 120 years and Malissie for 24 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1883–1885 Malissie ahead
- 1886–1889 Malachi ahead
- 1890–1907 Malissie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1917–2025 Malachi ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Malachi | Malissie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 66,048 | 449 |
| Most in one year | 2,790 | 17 |
| Babies in 2025 | 2,701 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 64,000 | 13 |
| Median age today | 13 | 86 |
| Peak year | 2006 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 150th boys | 1,883rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 134th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 290 / 65,758 | 449 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Malissies alive today are over 86; half the Malachis are over 13. That is 73 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Malachi and Malissie.