How Many People Are Named Melchor?
people named Melchor are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 501,886 people in the US has this name
Based on 894 babies named Melchor in Social Security records from 1917 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
25 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Spanish form of MELCHIOR.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Melchor in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Melchor alive today is about 40 years old, and 49% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 25 and 54 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Melchor first appears in the records in 1917 and was given most often in 1992, to 25 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1917 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Melchor has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #2,391, in 1950.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #2,391 (1950) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #4,148 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Melchor alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Melchor were born in California than in any other state: about 134 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Melchor was given 7.2 times as often in Texas and 4.7 times in California.
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