Malachy is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Malachy in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Malachy in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Malachy by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Malachy ranks at #4,690. That means there are 4,689 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malachy.
Is the name Malachy a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1897 – at that time, it landed at position 874 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Malachy is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Malachy, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Malachy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Malachy, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 18 parents welcomed a new Malachy to earth that year. That makes Malachy ranking on position 4,483 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Malachy who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
The first name Malachy is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 58 Americans in total bear this name. And these 58 men are located in only three states: California, Illinois and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Malachy and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Malachy in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 265,960 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Malachy present.
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 Malachy 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 Malachy 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 Malachy, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Apple
Cat
Hat
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Malachy
Malachy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
L
A
C
H
Y
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
Y
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. Malachy sounds like this:
