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Mercede

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Mercede has been given to 535 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Mercede, 2014

1 in 741,000

Mercede over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mercede: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mercede means

Mercede is a given name.

The naming story behind Mercede

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Mercede in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 30.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Lat. favours”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Mercede, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 535 girls were recorded with the name Mercede between 1979 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,753 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Mercede?

Mercede had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mercede sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mercede. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mercedes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mercede was born before 1995 — so the typical Mercede is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
535
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (293).

Is Mercede rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (44)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,753
1992

Spellings of Mercede

Mercede is not the most common spelling — Mercedes is, with 84.4% against Mercede's 0.98%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mercede is used

Across 1910–2025, Mercede was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,469,567 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mercede has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mercede around the world

Where Mercede ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mercede by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,753
1992
Peak year
1992
44 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
535
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mercede

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mercede

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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