Merce
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɾθe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merce is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 216K
- BRBrazil1 in 861K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
9,278 people
Highest-authority source
Andorra, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merce counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #312 | 9,278 | 1 in 5.4K | 9.8K | Merce | 146 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Merce | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Merce | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 246 | 1 in 861K | 301 | Merce | 35 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Merce | 21 |
| CL Chile | #735 | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 216K | 1 | Merce | 23 |
| AD Andorra | #208 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Merce | 8 |
9,278 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Merce is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, goods, wares, merchandise, products, commodities
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of mereċe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, ablative singular of merx
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pro, mercy; clemency
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, merchandise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Merce Cunninghamb. 1919USAmerican dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9.8K | #279 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.3K | #573 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 301 | #10,583 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 299 | #19,796 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 246 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 225 | #21,923 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 212 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 151 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 99 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 62 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 61 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 52 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Merce?
- A machine transcription gives /meɾθe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Merce a male or female name?
- Merce is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Merce have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Merce, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merce.
- How common is the name Merce?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,278 people named Merce, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Merce compared with other names?
- In Spain, Merce is the 312th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Merce?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Merce” — the 312th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.