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I'm not a fan. I love Malachi, but Malakeye looks awkward. All I seem to see is the "eye" part. If they really had to use a variant spelling, why not Malakai? Even Malaky would have been better, but it looks more like a variant of Malachy (MAL-a-kee).

I like Malachi and have tossed around the idea of Malakai nn Kai. But even for someone like me who is willing to "butcher" the spelling, Malakeye is a very bad option.

The best I can say about it - and I'm scraping the barrel here - is that it makes the pronunciation clear. It seems that in Ireland it (often? always?) sounds like ma-LAK-ee.

One of my biggest pet peaves is people who name their kids something with a 'normal' spelling, and spell it all weird and different.
I love Malachi, but why oh WHY couldn't they just spell it like that! Seriously, I feel bad for the kid, he'll always have to pronounce and spell his name because his parents wanted to spell his name 'cool'

Must be but it immediately made me think "fish eye" for some reason.

a very very bad spelling of Malachi!

Oof, it does seem to be an attempt to spell Malachi so that unfamiliar people don't say "mal-a-kee." I can't think of anything else it could be, unless your fb friend just has the spelling wrong. IMO spelling it conventionally and correcting new people gently is far more dignified than spelling the name as a sort of rebus. You only have to learn to pronounce a name correctly once, if it's spelled right, and you've got it forever. But having to learn a unique spelling, regardless of how you pronounced it at first, is distracting. =\

I don't like it. And Malachi isn't my style.