Mercè
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Mercè is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin mercēs, attested from the 12th century.
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 93Kfew records
- CLChile≈1 in 220K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
9,278 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Andorra, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is 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
(measured from records)From Latin mercēs, attested from the 12th century.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mercè 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.
| 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mercedes Llopartb. 1895ESnot in their usual nameSpanish opera singer
- Mercedes Capsirb. 1897ESnot in their usual nameCatalan operatic soprano (1897–1969)
- Mercè Comaposada i Guillénb. 1901ESSpanish anarcho-syndicalist (1900-1994)
- Mercè Rodoredab. 1908ESSpanish writer (1908-1983)
- Mercedes Sampietrob. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Mercè Ibarzb. 1954ESSpanish writer and journalist
- Mercè Arànegab. 1957ARSpanish actress
- Mercè Montalàb. 1958ESSpanish voice actress
- Mercè Ponsb. 1966ESSpanish actress in theater, dubbing, film and television
- Mercè Llorensb. 1979ESSpanish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mercè mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin mercēs, attested from the 12th century. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Mercè?
- In the etymology graph, Mercedes and Merche are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mercè a male or female name?
- Mercè 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 Mercè have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Mercè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merce.
- How common is the name Mercè?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,278 people named Mercè, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Mercè compared with other names?
- In Spain, Mercè is the 312th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mercè?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merc%C3%A8The 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 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, “Mercè” — the 312th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.