The name Malachi is of Hebrew origin and means ‘my messenger’ or ‘my angel.’ It is derived from the Hebrew word ‘mal’akh’ which means ‘messenger.’
Malachi is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Malachi isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Malachi ranks 156. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 14 were named Malachi. In the entire USA, approximately 55,215 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Malachi. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Malachi is of Hebrew origin and means ‘my messenger’ or ‘my angel.’ It is derived from the Hebrew word ‘mal’akh’ which means ‘messenger.’
It is believed... that the prophet Malachi lived in the Persian Period, that lasted from circa 540 BCE–330 BCE. In the Bible, the prophet Malachi's book is the last book of the Nevi'im, the second main division of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Malachi occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Malachi is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Malachi is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 55,210 men and boys of all generations bear the name Malachi – that is one in 3,023. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Alaska, where one in 400 men and boys is called Malachi, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 24,213 men for their name to get Malachi as an answer once.
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 seven letters, the name Malachi has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Malachi 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 Malachi, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Apple
Cat
Hat
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Malachi
Malachi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
L
A
C
H
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
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. Malachi sounds like this:
