Melchor

Boys' name

Form of Melchior

Melchor has been given to 894 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Melchor, 2024

1 in 418,000

Melchor over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melchor: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Melchior

Spanish

What Melchor means

Melchor is a form of Melchior.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Melchor is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mel.ˈt͡ʃoɾ/ for Melchor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Melchor → Melchior. The family’s meaning is “king of light”, recorded in English with the source elements מלכיאור.

Origin, language, and formation

Melchor is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melchior.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Melchor is pronounced /melˈt͡ʃoɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 894 boys were recorded with the name Melchor between 1917 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,391 in 1950.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Melchor?

Melchor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 418,000; 8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 215,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 289,633 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Melchor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melchor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melchors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melchor was born before 1980 — so the typical Melchor is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 16.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 19.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 714; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Melchor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1992 (25)
Years since peak: 33; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,391; 1950

Where Melchor is used

Across 1910–2025, Melchor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 104,765 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Melchor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melchor around the world

Where Melchor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1968–1968
#1,451
in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Melchor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,391; 1950
Peak year: 1992; 25 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 894
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Melchor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Melchor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shelbi Shelbie Ilana Danyelle Kelsea Ivonne Stormy Kaylene

For a brother

Coty Edgardo Arnulfo Dillan Devante Shay Rosendo Dimitri

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