Melquiades
Melquiades is a boy's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 2,347th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 140 Melquiadeses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Melquiades
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 181
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 2,347th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1924
How old the living Melquiadeses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 181 babies given the name since 1924, about 140 are alive — 76 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Melquiadess
- Melquíades Álvarez (1864–1936)Spanish politician
People named Melquiades with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Melquiades is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Melquiades peaked:
Where Melquiades lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 513 men called Melquiades were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Melquiades | 10 | 0.122 | 530 |
| Albacete | Melquiades | 21 | 0.107 | 592 |
| Salamanca | Melquiades | 13 | 0.082 | 677 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Melquiades | 39 | 0.073 | 1,164 |
| León | Melquiades | 14 | 0.064 | 839 |
| Asturias | Melquiades | 31 | 0.064 | 866 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Melquiades against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.