Mercé
given name · Latin script
Meaning: eye dialect spelling of merced
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/meɾˈse/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Mercé is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 76Kfew records
- CLChile≈1 in 180K
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 3.7K (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)Locally spelled Merce in ES Spain, BR Brazil, MX Mexico 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)eye dialect spelling of merced
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mercé 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 | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Merce | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Merce | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Merce | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 246 | 1 in 861K | 301 | Merce | 35 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 157K | 2 | Merce | 8 |
| AD Andorra | #208 | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Mercé is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, recompense
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, thank you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aleix Mercé i de Fondevilab. 1805ESSpanish musician (1805-1871)
- La Argentinab. 1890ESnot in their usual nameSpanish dancer and choreographer
- Andreu Mercé i Varelab. 1918ESSpanish journalist (1918-2011)
- Rafael Villafranca Mercéb. 1964ESCatalan politician
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Mercé mean, and where does it come from?
- eye dialect spelling of merced Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mercé?
- In Spanish /meɾˈse/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Mercé a male or female name?
- Mercé 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 Mercé have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Mercé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merce.
- How common is the name Mercé?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,278 people named Mercé, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Mercé compared with other names?
- In Spain, Mercé is the 312th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mercé?
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%A9The 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, “Mercé” — the 312th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.