# Mercy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mercy/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Merry |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,864 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 232 / 10,632 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 706, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From mercy in the 17th century; one of the less common Puritan virtue names. In modern use sometimes used to anglicize Spanish Mercedes.

## 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 | 246 | 1,017 |
| 2012 | 255 | 991 |
| 2013 | 314 | 840 |
| 2014 | 289 | 935 |
| 2015 | 265 | 1,013 |
| 2016 | 360 | 792 |
| 2017 | 367 | 759 |
| 2018 | 392 | 726 |
| 2019 | 441 | 661 |
| 2020 | 339 | 801 |
| 2021 | 363 | 781 |
| 2022 | 355 | 797 |
| 2023 | 329 | 834 |
| 2024 | 320 | 847 |
| 2025 | 313 | 867 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 5 | 4,581 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11,567 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,690 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,568 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,382 |
| 2016 | 12 | 7,000 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,697 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,578 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,909 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,393 |
| 2021 | 20 | 4,879 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,803 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,959 |
| 2024 | 24 | 4,399 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,211 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 39 | 915 |
| 2012 | 35 | 1,018 |
| 2013 | 33 | 1,075 |
| 2014 | 27 | 1,234 |
| 2015 | 28 | 1,204 |
| 2016 | 31 | 1,112 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,330 |
| 2018 | 27 | 1,234 |
| 2019 | 28 | 1,189 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,505 |
| 2022 | 31 | 1,081 |
| 2023 | 28 | 1,169 |
| 2024 | 36 | 980 |
| 2025 | 27 | 1,197 |

## In other languages

- Spanish: Mercedes

## People named Mercy

- Mercy Otis Warren, American writer
- Mercy Akide, association football player
- Mercy Brown, American woman whose body was exhumed as part of the New England vampire panic
- Lavinia Warren, American circus performer (1841–1919)

## 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.