Melquíades
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Probable variante de Milcíades; griego, 'perteneciente a la familia pelirroja'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/melkiades/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melquíades is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Venezuela.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probable variante de Milcíades; griego, 'perteneciente a la familia pelirroja'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melquíades counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | — | 999 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 559 | — |
| MX Mexico | — | 97 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Melquíades Álvarezb. 1864ESSpanish politician (1864-1936)
- Melquíades Lestónb. 1906ESSpanish trade unionist
- Melquíades Andrés Martínb. 1916ESSpanish priest and theologian (1916-2014)
- Melquíades Mansur Eliasb. 1919BRBrazilian politician
- Melquiades Moralesb. 1942MXMexican politician
- Melquíades Jaramillob. 1966VEVenezuelan basketball player
- Melquíades Álvarezb. 1988ESSpanish swimmer
- Melquíades Mário de Sá FreireBRBrazilian lawyer and politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Melquíades?
- A machine transcription gives /melkiades/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Melquíades a male or female name?
- Melquíades is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Melquíades mean?
- Recorded meaning: Probable variante de Milcíades; griego, 'perteneciente a la familia pelirroja'.
- In which country does Melquíades have the most bearers?
- Melquíades is most frequently recorded in Venezuela.
What do you want to know about Melquíades?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melqu%C3%ADadesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Melquíades”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.