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The name Melchor is of Spanish origin. The meaning of Melchor is king city. Melchor is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 7 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Mel-chor.
The name Melanesia (in French MÃ©lanÃ©sie from the Greek Î¼Î­Î»Î±Ï, black, and Î½á¿ÏÎ¿Ï, islands) was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands whose inhabitants he thought were distinct from those of Micronesia and Polynesia.