Melchor

7,918 people in the United States were counted with the surname Melchor in the 2020 census, making it the 4,331st most common in the country. That is about one person in 37,700.

By the numbers

People: 7,918
Rank: 4,331st
How common: 1 in 37,700
Per 100,000: 2.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Melchor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 85.4%
White, not Hispanic 5.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Melchor

Inés Melchor (born 1986)Peruvian long-distance runner
Fernanda Melchor (born 1982)Mexican writer

People named Melchor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Melchor

Also a first name

Melchor has been given to 894 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.