MEANING & HISTORY
What does Melquiades mean?
Egger’s specialist Latin name lexicon explicitly pairs Hispanic Melquiades with Melchiade and Melchiades. Historical reference works record the pope as both Melchiades and Miltiades.
The competing Hebrew and Greek explanations should not be collapsed into one confident literal gloss: the secure point is the transmitted historical name and its recorded forms.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
5
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Melquiades in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
MELQUIADESCSV record 6,206 (header counted as record 1)
- Other source spellings
- MELQUIADES JR.
1 matching source record included an explicit generational suffix; that suffix is omitted from this name entry.
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Melquiades in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Melquiades
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Leonides·Leonidas form in the Greek lion-name tradition
- Lourdes♀From Lourdes, the French pilgrimage town
- Melanie♀Black or dark
- Melinda♀Created from Mel names with an inda ending
- Melodia·Melodi spelling family: melody
- Mercedes♀Mercies; from Our Lady of Mercies
- Gertrudes♂Portuguese Gertrude: spear + strength
- Meinrado·Meinrad form: strength and counsel
What rhymes with Melquiades?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Melquiades further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Carlo Egger: Lexicon nominum virorum et mulierum (1963), pp. 166–167 (opens in a new tab)
Explicit Hispanic Melquiades / Melchiade / Melchiades correspondence; competing Hebrew proposal is not treated as settled.
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Pope St. Miltiades (opens in a new tab)
Explicit Melchiades alternative form.
- Behind the Name: miltiades (opens in a new tab)
Independently consulted linked-name formation and lexical root.