Mercutio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/meɾkutio/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mercutio is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ZASouth Africa
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Mercutio 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 English, character in Romeo and Juliet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Shakespeare
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mercutio mean, and where does it come from?
- One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mercutio a male or female name?
- Mercutio is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Mercutio?
- In the etymology graph, Mark, Marcus and Marky are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mercutio?
- In Spanish /meɾkutio/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mercutio have the most bearers?
- Mercutio is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mercutioThe 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, “Mercutio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.