# Mercedes (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mercedes/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /mɚˈseɪdiz/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 46,575 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 369 / 46,206 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,347, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Spanish Mercedes (Mary, Our Lady of Mercy). The car was named for Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek who ordered 36 cars from Gottlieb Daimler.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 366 | 754 |
| 2012 | 398 | 708 |
| 2013 | 301 | 859 |
| 2014 | 271 | 986 |
| 2015 | 244 | 1,078 |
| 2016 | 255 | 1,037 |
| 2017 | 246 | 1,049 |
| 2018 | 237 | 1,074 |
| 2019 | 196 | 1,197 |
| 2020 | 176 | 1,273 |
| 2021 | 195 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | 194 | 1,245 |
| 2023 | 158 | 1,420 |
| 2024 | 152 | 1,448 |
| 2025 | 150 | 1,439 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 11 | 3,843 |
| 1985 | 9 | 4,560 |
| 1986 | 19 | 2,749 |
| 1987 | 18 | 2,911 |
| 1988 | 27 | 2,286 |
| 1989 | 25 | 2,585 |
| 1990 | 19 | 3,263 |
| 1991 | 10 | 5,377 |
| 1992 | 13 | 4,493 |
| 1993 | 15 | 4,159 |
| 1994 | 6 | 8,432 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,699 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,241 |
| 1999 | 9 | 6,911 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,605 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 80 | 525 |
| 2012 | 61 | 679 |
| 2013 | 42 | 882 |
| 2014 | 47 | 814 |
| 2015 | 35 | 1,007 |
| 2016 | 30 | 1,142 |
| 2017 | 34 | 1,043 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,393 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,703 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,200 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 12 | 2,178 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,892 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Mercè
- Chinese: 梅塞德絲 /梅塞德丝
- Finnish: Mercedes
- Hindi: मर्सिडीज़
- Hungarian: Mercédesz
- Polish: Mercedes
- Russian: Мерсе́дес
- Spanish: Mercedes

## People named Mercedes

- Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (1935-2009)
- Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (1916-2004)
- Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
- Mercedes Moné, American professional wrestler and actress
- Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, and novelist (1893-1968)
- Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress, singer, dancer and model
- Mercedes McNab, Canadian actress
- Mercedes Lackey, American novelist and short story writer
- Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero, Film director, Screenwriter (1940-1997)
- Mercedes Paz, Argentine female tennis player
- Mercedes Moran, Argentine actress
- Mercedes Carrera, American pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.