Malec
Malec is the ship name for Magnus and Alec from The Mortal Instruments. It is a portmanteau: built by joining a piece of one name to a piece of the other.
Engine version 1.0 · Breakdown computed from the live checker · Research Desk
Structure
ma from Magnus, plus alec from Alec.
Magnus coverage 33%
Alec coverage 100%
At the join, al, a vowel meets a consonant, which is the seam that most often survives being read aloud by someone seeing it for the first time.
Why this name is shaped the way it is
One letter plus a whole name. The M is the only trace of Magnus, and in practice the community never had trouble with it.
What our own engine would have built
Handed Magnus and Alec with no knowledge of the fandom, the blender proposes Magnulec, Alegnus, Magnlec, Magnuec, Magnec, Alenus. Malec is not among them. That is the normal result, and it is the clearest illustration of why this site refuses to call any candidate the best one. A community picked Malec for reasons no software can see.
If you want to run the same check on a name of your own, the draft checker does exactly what produced the breakdown above, and the ship name generator builds candidates from two names you supply.
Other portmanteaus
Questions
What does Malec mean?
Malec is the ship name for Magnus and Alec from The Mortal Instruments. A ship name is a nickname for a pairing, and shipping means wanting two characters to be together.
Who is Malec?
Malec is not a person. It refers to Magnus and Alec as a pairing, which is how fandom communities talk about two characters together in one word.
How was Malec formed?
By joining ma from Magnus to alec from Alec. That keeps 33% of the first name and 100% of the second.