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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

Births per year: Malachi against Malissie, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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.

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 66,048449
Most in one year 2,79017
Babies in 2025 2,701under 5
Estimated living today 64,00013
Median age today 1386
Peak year 20061915
Best rank 150th boys1,883rd girls
Rank in 2025 134thunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 290 / 65,758449 / 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.