Malachai is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Malachai is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Malachai. In the SmartGenius ranking, Malachai is #2,235 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malachai.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Malachai. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 258 Americans who bear this name. And these 258 men and boys named Malachai live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Malachai lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Malachai and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Malachai relative to its male population is Florida. And even there, only one male in 90,898 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Malachai.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With eight letters, the name Malachai is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Malachai and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Malachai, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Apple
Cat
Hat
Apple
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Malachai
Malachai
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
L
A
C
H
A
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
L
A
C
H
A
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Malachai sounds like this:
