Mercure
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name popularized by the fame of St
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɝˈkʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mercure is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- 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)
from a personal name popularized by the fame of St. Mercurius of Cappadocia (see Italian Mercuric).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 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)
Mercure 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 French, Mercury (planet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, du nom latin Mercurius.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Georges Mercureb. 1905CACanadian composer (1905-1993)
- Pierre Mercureb. 1927CACanadian musician (1927–1966)
- Monique Mercureb. 1930CACanadian actress (1930–2020)
- Isa Mercureb. 1947FRFrench actress
- Daniel Mercureb. 1954CAsociologist and university professor
- Daniel Mercureb. 1955CACanadian pianist
- Luc Mercureb. 1962CAQuebec poet and novelist
- Rolaphton Mercureb. 1988HTHaitian playwright, poet, slam poet, actor, director and journalist
- Jean-François MercureGBeconomist
- Evelyne MercureGBresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 922 | #25,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 800 | #29,502 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 49 | #106,268 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Mercure come from?
- from a personal name popularized by the fame of St. Mercurius of Cappadocia (see Italian Mercuric). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mercure?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝˈkʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mercure mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name popularized by the fame of St.
- In which country does Mercure have the most bearers?
- Mercure is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Mercure?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mercureThe 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, “Mercure”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.