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All over the world, Мерсье (Mercier , Mersie , Merse ) is quite a common epicene first name. The first name Мерсье is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare largely male, but seldom feminine name, Turkmenistan, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and Ethiopia, where it is a rare epicene name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and France. More frequently, Мерсье is the last name as well as the forename.
Мерсье is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Mercier , the musical character in the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel by Frank Wildhorn; aide to Chauvelin.