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Meaning & History
Means "my king is God" in Hebrew, derived from Hebrew malákh "to rule" combined with el "God". In other words, this name is a cognate of Elimelech. A known bearer of this name was Malchiel Gruenwald (1881-1958), an Israeli hotelier who became publicly known in 1953, when he accused an Israeli government employee of having been involved in the Holocaust.