Meaning not yet researched.
Merci: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,556 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,556 in 2019; #3,502 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Merci in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,502 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,556.
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Merci: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,556 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 69 (2019).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Merci, making it the 3,502nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 944 places from #4,446 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 32 girls named Merci in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,556, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 69. For comparison, it was #4,465 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Merci, making it the 7,509th most common boys’ name of the year, down 394 places from #7,115 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 12 boys named Merci in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #7,115, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Merci in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 7 babies. In all, 1,055 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 376 babies named Merci.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 498 US girls were named Merci; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mercy (10,864 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Merci in the open dataset we use.
Merci is listed as a nickname for Mercedes.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,502 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,446 | 12 | #7,115 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,314 | 5 | #13,494 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,655 | 8 | #9,556 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,328 | 10 | #7,958 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,320 | 7 | #10,234 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,556 | 5 | #13,462 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,190 | 6 | #11,675 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,465 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,259 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,787 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,877 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,815 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,028 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,972 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,114 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,722 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,370 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,461 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,030 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,864 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,440 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,049 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,966 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,287 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,892 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,790 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,869 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,580 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,330 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,532 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,193 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,350 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,202 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,493 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,487 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,288 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,804 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,648 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,281 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,672 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,335 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,746 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,014 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,981 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,650 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,796 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,513 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,702 | — | — |
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).