"Variant of Malachi"
The name Malakhai is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Malakhai is a spelling variant of Malachi, the name carried by the prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew form is mal'akhi, meaning "my messenger", and the kh in this spelling stands for the Hebrew khaf sound that is usually written as ch in English. The spelling Malakhai first appears in United States birth records in 2002.
Malachi means "Messenger from God.".
The pronunciation of Malakhai is MAL-uh-kye.