Given name
Malchijah
“Yah is king”·“king of the Lord”
Malchijah is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewמלכיה
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Malchijah means “Yah is king” or “king of the Lord.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Malchijah is a biblical name from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew noun melek (מלך), “king.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Malchijah appears in 1 Chronicles 6:40, Nehemiah 11:12, Jeremiah 38:6 and 7 other passages.
- 1 Chronicles 6:40
- Nehemiah 11:12
- Jeremiah 38:6
- Ezra 10:25
- Ezra 10:31
- Nehemiah 3:11
- Nehemiah 3:14
- Nehemiah 3:31
- Nehemiah 10:3
- Nehemiah 12:42
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Malchijah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Malchijah’s family of names
See also 20
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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Tobijah
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Abinadab
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>99% boys
Tiras
“but perhaps desire” · “fragmentizer or moisturizer”
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Nahshon
“serpent” · “bronze”
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Nethaniah
“Yah has given”
>99% boys