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Mercedez

#10,627 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mercedez has been given to 3,056 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #10,627 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 149 recorded.

Babies named Mercedez, 2025

1 in 368,000

Mercedez over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mercedez: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mercedez means

Mercedez is a given name.

The naming story behind Mercedez

Wikidata records Mercedez as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q97573818, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,056 girls were recorded with the name Mercedez between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 149 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,174 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,261 in 2020 to #10,627 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,957 in 2015 to #10,627 in 2025.

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 Mercedez?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,627
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mercedez 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mercedez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mercedezs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mercedez was born before 2000 — so the typical Mercedez is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,046
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (1,189).

Is Mercedez 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
+1,165
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,366
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,670
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.24×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.0%
Peak was 1993 (149)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,174
1993

Spellings of Mercedez

Mercedez is not the most common spelling — Mercedes is, with 91.7% against Mercedez's 6.1%.

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 Mercedez is used

Across 1910–2025, Mercedez was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 90,662 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Idaho1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Mercedez has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mercedez around the world

Where Mercedez 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1992–2013
    #2,555
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mercedez in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mercedez. Linked forms have their own page here.

Mercedes

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mercedez by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,627
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,366
Best rank ever
#1,174
1993
Peak year
1993
149 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,056
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Mercedez

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

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Names with a curve like Mercedez

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mercedez, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mercedez

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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