Merçe

Name: Merçe: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Merçe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common

ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
CLChile≈1 in 216K
BRBrazil1 in 861K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Spain (measured from records)
Sources: 146 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Merce in ES Spain, CL Chile, BR Brazil and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Merçe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Merçe is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ES Spain	#312	9,278	1 in 5.4K	9.8K	Merce	146
CO Colombia	—	≈530 est.	≈1 in 93K	—	Merce	14
TZ Tanzania	—	≈350 est.	≈1 in 166K	—	Merce	5
BR Brazil	—	246	1 in 861K	301	Merce	35
PH Philippines	—	≈220 est.	≈1 in 501K	—	Merce	21
CL Chile	#735	≈84 est.	≈1 in 216K	1	Merce	23
AD Andorra	#208	≈16 est.	≈1 in 4.7K	—	Merce	8

9,278 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Merçe is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Albanian name3 spellings in the group
Also written Merce, Mercé
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Merce

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Merçe
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
ES Spain	INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)	—	75	#8,859
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	72	#20,523

Frequently asked questions

Is Merçe a male or female name?: Merçe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Merçe have the most bearers?: In Spain, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Merçe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merce.
How common is the name Merçe?: In Spain, the national register counted 9,278 people named Merçe, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
How common is Merçe compared with other names?: In Spain, Merçe is the 312th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Merçe?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mer%C3%A7e

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Merçe” — the 312th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)