Merci — #4388 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Merci

The Social Security Administration has registered 947 babies named Merci between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Merci currently holds the #4388 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 69 babies received it in a single year. Merci is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 53 additional births since 2018.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Merci performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 365 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Merci shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Merci in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Merci 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 947 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.