Mercede
given name · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of mercedar:
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɾθeðe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mercede is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 390K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 552K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
603 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of mercedar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mercede 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 | — | 603 | 1 in 552K | 590 | Mercede | 69 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mercede | 14 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 275K | 1 | Mercede | 10 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 330K | — | Mercede | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 144 | 1 in 1.5M | 192 | Mercede | 19 |
| CL Chile | #711 | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 390K | 1 | Mercede | 16 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Mercede | 7 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 1 | — | 6 |
603 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Mercede is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, ablative singular of mercēs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, recompense
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, reward
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MERCÉDE s. f. (Italienism; înv.) Răsplată, recompensă.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Mercede Mundulab. 1890ITItalian novelist, poet and historian (1890-1947)
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 590 | #18,007 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 192 | #14,458 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 144 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143 | #31,978 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 137 | #31,169 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 77 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 44 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 35 | — |
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 Mercede mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of mercedar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mercede?
- A machine transcription gives /meɾθeðe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Mercede a male or female name?
- Mercede 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 Mercede have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 603 people named Mercede, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mercede.
- How common is the name Mercede?
- In the United States, the national register counted 603 people named Mercede in 2020, about 1 in 552 thousand residents.
- How common is Mercede compared with other names?
- In Chile, Mercede is the 711th most common given name of 70,478 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mercede?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mercedeThe 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, “Mercede” — the 711th most common given name in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.