Mercédes

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mercédes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 96th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From mercedes (“mercies”), shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy".

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 415(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 5.3K
  • ECEcuador1 in 319

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.

Spain (measured from records)

120,557 people

Sources
429 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 319 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mercedes in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 2 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)

From mercedes (“mercies”), shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy".

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mercédes 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.

Where Mercédes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#878120,5571 in 415128KMercedes113
US United States#93262,8501 in 5.3K62KMercedes429
EC Ecuador—52,9851 in 31953KMercedes29
BR Brazil—14,7161 in 14K22K—4
CR Costa Rica—2,7781 in 1.8K2.8K—1
SE Sweden—1,7621 in 5.8K1.8KMercedes27
JM Jamaica#96———Mercedes7

120,557 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mercédes is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, Spain, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Khmer

    Also written Mercedes, Merçedes, Mêrcêdês, Mërcëdës, Mercèdes

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Peru, United States, Spain

    Also written Mercedes

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Mercèdés, Mercedes, Mercédès, Mercèdes, Mercêdes

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mercédes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Croatian, model automobilske tvrtke Daimler (od 1926. Daimler-Benz) nakon 1902.

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Mercédes mean, and where does it come from?
From mercedes (“mercies”), shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy". Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
Is Mercédes a male or female name?
Mercédes 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 Mercédes have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Mercédes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mercedes.
Where is Mercédes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mercédes is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 319 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mercédes?
In Spain, the national register counted 120,557 people named Mercédes, about 1 in 415 residents.
How common is Mercédes compared with other names?
In Spain, Mercédes is the 878th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mercédes” — the 878th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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