Mercêr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mercêr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).
- BRBrazil1 in 334K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 9.7K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
34,431 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mercer in US United States, BR Brazil.
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)
- Anglo-Normanmarcer“merchant“merchant, textile merchant”(measured from records)
- Anglo-Norman rootmerz“commodity”(measured from records)
- Latinmerx(measured from records)
From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mercêr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 34,431 | 1 in 9.7K | 34K | Mercer | 70 |
| BR Brazil | 634 | 1 in 334K | 634 | Mercer | 55 |
| ES Spain | 127 | 1 in 394K | 127 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 21 | 1 in 265K | 21 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | — |
34,431 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mercêr mean, and where does it come from?
- From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 4 other sources.
- Is Mercêr a male or female name?
- Mercêr is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mercêr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Mercêr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mercer.
- Where is Mercêr most common?
- Mercêr is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mercêr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 34,431 people named Mercêr in 2010, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merc%C3%AArThe 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, “Mercêr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.