Meaning not yet researched.
Mercedes: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 150 in 2025. Its best rank was #164 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #164 in 1991; #1,439 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mercedes in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,439 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #164.
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Mercedes: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 150 girls in 2025. Peak: #164 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 1,798 (1991).
In 2025, 150 US girls were named Mercedes, making it the 1,439th most common girls’ name of the year, up 9 places from #1,448 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 152 girls named Mercedes in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #164, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,798. For comparison, it was #1,078 in 2015 and #641 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mercedes in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 46,575 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 15,376 babies named Mercedes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,959 US girls were named Mercedes; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 255. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,715 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mercedes ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #681 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mercedez (3,056 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mersades, Mercedies and Mersedes are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Merci, Mercy and Sadie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mersades (248), Mercedies (102), Mersedes (75), Mercedees (61), Mercedese (37), Mercedeez (20), Mercides (18), Mercedys (6), Merzedes (5), Mercedas (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 6 | #681 | #816 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #718 | #610 |
| Indiana | 7 | #891 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,005 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #1,146 | #869 |
| California | 19 | #1,301 | #1,196 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,388 | #1,406 |
| New York | 7 | #1,773 | #1,459 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,065 | #969 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 150 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2023 | 158 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2022 | 194 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 2021 | 195 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2019 | 196 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 2018 | 237 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2017 | 246 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2016 | 255 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 2015 | 244 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2014 | 271 | #986 | — | — |
| 2013 | 301 | #859 | — | — |
| 2012 | 398 | #708 | — | — |
| 2011 | 366 | #754 | — | — |
| 2010 | 436 | #665 | — | — |
| 2009 | 457 | #647 | — | — |
| 2008 | 583 | #524 | — | — |
| 2007 | 664 | #490 | — | — |
| 2006 | 730 | #437 | — | — |
| 2005 | 817 | #383 | — | — |
| 2004 | 952 | #337 | 7 | #9,605 |
| 2003 | 949 | #332 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,069 | #293 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,099 | #283 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,134 | #285 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,207 | #262 | 9 | #6,911 |
| 1998 | 1,376 | #225 | 6 | #9,241 |
| 1997 | 1,244 | #241 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,390 | #211 | 7 | #7,699 |
| 1995 | 1,543 | #191 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,571 | #189 | 6 | #8,432 |
| 1993 | 1,779 | #171 | 15 | #4,159 |
| 1992 | 1,729 | #178 | 13 | #4,493 |
| 1991 | 1,798 | #164 | 10 | #5,377 |
| 1990 | 1,654 | #176 | 19 | #3,263 |
| 1989 | 1,220 | #224 | 25 | #2,585 |
| 1988 | 609 | #395 | 27 | #2,286 |
| 1987 | 427 | #501 | 18 | #2,911 |
| 1986 | 384 | #533 | 19 | #2,749 |
| 1985 | 359 | #551 | 9 | #4,560 |
| 1984 | 294 | #610 | 11 | #3,843 |
| 1983 | 311 | #576 | 9 | #4,370 |
| 1982 | 304 | #595 | 7 | #5,408 |
| 1981 | 254 | #686 | 10 | #4,045 |
| 1980 | 248 | #693 | 11 | #3,760 |
| 1979 | 223 | #736 | 5 | #6,717 |
| 1978 | 220 | #719 | — | — |
| 1977 | 209 | #738 | — | — |
| 1976 | 203 | #722 | 12 | #3,197 |
| 1975 | 211 | #705 | 8 | #4,176 |
| 1974 | 169 | #801 | 5 | #5,730 |
| 1973 | 168 | #789 | 5 | #5,608 |
| 1972 | 189 | #740 | — | — |
| 1971 | 191 | #767 | — | — |
| 1970 | 202 | #734 | — | — |
| 1969 | 167 | #798 | — | — |
| 1968 | 157 | #809 | — | — |
| 1967 | 164 | #768 | — | — |
| 1966 | 158 | #784 | — | — |
| 1965 | 169 | #762 | — | — |
| 1964 | 173 | #790 | — | — |
| 1963 | 184 | #759 | — | — |
| 1962 | 180 | #778 | — | — |
| 1961 | 180 | #782 | — | — |
| 1960 | 167 | #798 | — | — |
| 1959 | 176 | #769 | 5 | #4,369 |
| 1958 | 184 | #729 | — | — |
| 1957 | 168 | #774 | — | — |
| 1956 | 187 | #699 | — | — |
| 1955 | 159 | #752 | — | — |
| 1954 | 183 | #694 | — | — |
| 1953 | 159 | #720 | — | — |
| 1952 | 158 | #708 | — | — |
| 1951 | 188 | #637 | — | — |
| 1950 | 179 | #641 | — | — |
| 1949 | 148 | #696 | — | — |
| 1948 | 136 | #727 | — | — |
| 1947 | 146 | #701 | — | — |
| 1946 | 149 | #650 | — | — |
| 1945 | 156 | #586 | — | — |
| 1944 | 124 | #667 | — | — |
| 1943 | 134 | #656 | — | — |
| 1942 | 120 | #683 | — | — |
| 1941 | 120 | #647 | — | — |
| 1940 | 135 | #601 | — | — |
| 1939 | 170 | #513 | — | — |
| 1938 | 177 | #503 | — | — |
| 1937 | 197 | #467 | 6 | #3,397 |
| 1936 | 163 | #514 | — | — |
| 1935 | 175 | #477 | 6 | #3,520 |
| 1934 | 168 | #498 | — | — |
| 1933 | 176 | #480 | 6 | #3,517 |
| 1932 | 186 | #485 | 5 | #4,117 |
| 1931 | 212 | #444 | 8 | #3,016 |
| 1930 | 234 | #440 | — | — |
| 1929 | 266 | #406 | 9 | #2,899 |
| 1928 | 252 | #426 | 6 | #3,993 |
| 1927 | 291 | #402 | 8 | #3,348 |
| 1926 | 273 | #411 | — | — |
| 1925 | 295 | #398 | 9 | #3,064 |
| 1924 | 319 | #381 | 10 | #2,954 |
| 1923 | 276 | #404 | 7 | #3,699 |
| 1922 | 239 | #432 | — | — |
| 1921 | 299 | #387 | — | — |
| 1920 | 318 | #369 | 5 | #4,737 |
| 1919 | 225 | #438 | — | — |
| 1918 | 236 | #432 | — | — |
| 1917 | 253 | #398 | 6 | #3,830 |
| 1916 | 227 | #412 | — | — |
| 1915 | 232 | #394 | — | — |
| 1914 | 167 | #411 | — | — |
| 1913 | 131 | #433 | — | — |
| 1912 | 122 | #426 | — | — |
| 1911 | 92 | #426 | — | — |
| 1910 | 82 | #442 | — | — |
| 1909 | 73 | #434 | — | — |
| 1908 | 64 | #454 | — | — |
| 1907 | 68 | #433 | — | — |
| 1906 | 52 | #474 | — | — |
| 1905 | 60 | #435 | — | — |
| 1904 | 62 | #408 | — | — |
| 1903 | 33 | #570 | — | — |
| 1902 | 44 | #473 | — | — |
| 1901 | 25 | #642 | — | — |
| 1900 | 49 | #486 | — | — |
| 1899 | 35 | #504 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #566 | — | — |
| 1897 | 17 | #780 | — | — |
| 1896 | 26 | #619 | — | — |
| 1895 | 27 | #587 | — | — |
| 1894 | 25 | #591 | — | — |
| 1893 | 14 | #818 | — | — |
| 1892 | 17 | #717 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #637 | — | — |
| 1890 | 14 | #750 | — | — |
| 1889 | 13 | #745 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #938 | — | — |
| 1887 | 10 | #775 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #758 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #903 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #889 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #790 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #809 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).