Name meaning & stats
Mercy
Mercy (English origin). 9,806 US babies since 1940, peak 2019.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
English
In US birth records
Peak year: 2019
9,806 US babies were named Mercy between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Mercy (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 88% of the family
- Mercy 88%
- Merci 9%
- Mercie 3%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2019)