Mercer — #3041 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mercer

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,293 babies named Mercer between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mercer currently holds the #3041 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Mercer is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 208 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mercer performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 308 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Mercer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 95 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Mercer in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mercer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,293 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.