Mery
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant pet form related to Marie or Mary
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛri/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mery is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- VEVenezuela1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 16as Maria
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mery itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #1 (measured from records)
- 11 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 679 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,284,478 named Maria, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 2 more, Mary in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia and Мария in RU Russia.
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)
Variant pet form related to Marie or Mary.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mery 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #1 | 12,284,478as Maria | 1 in 17 | 12M | Maria | 306 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | ≈2,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 20 | 5.3K | Maria | 253 |
| RU Russia | #19 | ≈2,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 72 | #4 | Мария | 263 |
| US United States | #1 | 1,768,343as Mary | 1 in 188 | 1.8M | Mary | 679 |
| PH Philippines | #1 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 92 | 27K | Mary | 225 |
| EC Ecuador | #1 | 1,042,139as Maria | 1 in 16 | 1M | Maria | 165 |
| CZ Czechia | #22 | 521,052as Marie | 1 in 21 | 521K | Mary | 130 |
| SV El Salvador | #2 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 16 | 627 | Maria | 110 |
| VE Venezuela | #2 | 9,110 | 1 in 3.1K | 9.1K | Maria | 171 |
12,284,478 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INEC — civil registry names; This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Mery is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, 1. variant of Merry 3, or from a short form of the personal name Aimery (see Emery). 2. habitational name from places in Ardennes, Aube, Calvados, Marne, and Val-d’Oise, all derived from the same Gallo-Roman name as Merry 4.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Obsolete form of merry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, Happy, joyful, pleased; in a good mood or state of mind:
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)
- Mery Adidab. 1912FRBatna. (1912-2002)
- Mery Godigna Colletb. 1959VEVenezuelan artist, writer, activist
- Mery Eliana Infantes Castañedab. 1963PEPeruvian politician
- Mery Zamorab. 1972ECEcuadorian educator and politician
- Mery Andradeb. 1975PTPortuguese basketball player (born 1975)
- Mery Cuestab. 1975ESSpanish art critic, curator, cartoonist
- Luz Mery Rojasb. 1993PEPeruvian long-distance runner
- Mery Kayrouzb. 1997LBLebanese cross-country skier
- Mery H. Thompsonresearcher
- Susan MedinaPEnot in their usual namePeruvian biologist
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)
Attested in 73 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 11K | #195 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 9.1K | #217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,812 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.7K | #4,926 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #4,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #5,812 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #4,195 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 20 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 6 | #2,596 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mery mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant pet form related to Marie or Mary. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Mery?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛri/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Mery a male or female name?
- Mery 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 Mery have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mery most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mery is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mery?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 9,110 people named Mery, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Mery compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mery is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mery?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meryThe 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, “Mery” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.