Mercer
Mercer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 967th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201644 births
- Best rank
- #967in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,501people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,293 boys have been named Mercer in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 44 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2010s alone account for 24%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 208 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mercer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 98 | |
| 1920s | 162 | |
| 1930s | 78 | |
| 1940s | 100 | |
| 1950s | 75 | |
| 1960s | 48 | |
| 1970s | 19 | |
| 1980s | 6 | |
| 1990s | 42 | |
| 2000s | 155 | |
| 2010s | 308 | |
| 2020s | 180 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Mercer was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Mercer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Linuspeak 2017
- Aldenpeak 2024
- Abbottpeak 2016
- Augustinepeak 2024
- Roccopeak 2009
- Waldenpeak 2023
- Morrisonpeak 2015
- Emersonpeak 2019
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.