Mercy — #848 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mercy

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,313 babies named Mercy between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mercy currently holds the #848 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 439 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mercy performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,134 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Mercy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,624 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Mercy in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mercy 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 10,313 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.