Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Melquisedec isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Melquisedec through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 136
- 136 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,533 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,533 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 237 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Melquisedec’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Melquisedec has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form MELCHIZEDEK.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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