Meaning not yet researched.
Mercy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 313 in 2025. Its best rank was #611 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #611 in 1881; #867 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Mercy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#867 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #611.
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Mercy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 313 girls in 2025. Peak: #611 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 441 (2019).
In 2025, 313 US girls were named Mercy, making it the 867th most common girls’ name of the year, down 20 places from #847 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 320 girls named Mercy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #611, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 441, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,013 in 2015 and #1,543 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mercy in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 9 babies. In all, 10,864 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,223 babies named Mercy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,579 US girls were named Mercy; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 441. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,135 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mercy ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #470 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Merci (1,055 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mercie and Mercee are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mercie (491), Mercee (11).
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 Mercy in the open dataset we use.
Mercy is listed as a nickname for Marietta, Mercedes.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 17 | #470 | #728 |
| Iowa | 7 | #475 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #585 | #409 |
| Indiana | 11 | #603 | #527 |
| Washington | 11 | #609 | #908 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #634 | — |
| Georgia | 17 | #637 | #719 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #662 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #676 | #728 |
| Oregon | 5 | #703 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #709 | #649 |
| Missouri | 8 | #711 | #661 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #719 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #719 | #872 |
| Colorado | 7 | #764 | #746 |
| Michigan | 10 | #768 | #1,431 |
| Utah | 5 | #793 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #796 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #854 | #891 |
| Alabama | 5 | #909 | #916 |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,009 | #1,032 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,078 | #1,574 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,089 | #1,399 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,106 | #1,132 |
| California | 23 | #1,136 | #1,197 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,222 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,616 | #1,717 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 313 | #867 | 25 | #4,211 |
| 2024 | 320 | #847 | 24 | #4,399 |
| 2023 | 329 | #834 | 28 | #3,959 |
| 2022 | 355 | #797 | 21 | #4,803 |
| 2021 | 363 | #781 | 20 | #4,879 |
| 2020 | 339 | #801 | 17 | #5,393 |
| 2019 | 441 | #661 | 20 | #4,909 |
| 2018 | 392 | #726 | 13 | #6,578 |
| 2017 | 367 | #759 | 16 | #5,697 |
| 2016 | 360 | #792 | 12 | #7,000 |
| 2015 | 265 | #1,013 | 11 | #7,382 |
| 2014 | 289 | #935 | 9 | #8,568 |
| 2013 | 314 | #840 | 6 | #11,690 |
| 2012 | 255 | #991 | — | — |
| 2011 | 246 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2010 | 207 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 2009 | 193 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 2006 | 163 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2005 | 159 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 2003 | 156 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 2001 | 131 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,585 | 5 | #11,567 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1955 | 55 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1954 | 68 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1945 | 41 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1937 | 41 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1930 | 42 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,472 | 5 | #4,581 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #884 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #791 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #611 | — | — |
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).