Mercury — #7867 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mercury

The Social Security Administration has registered 196 babies named Mercury between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mercury currently holds the #7867 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Mercury is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 94 additional births since 2009.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mercury performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 62 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Mercury shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mercury in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mercury 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 196 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.