Mercedes

Where Mercedes comes from

From Spanish Mercedes (Mary, Our Lady of Mercy). The car was named for Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek who ordered 36 cars from Gottlieb Daimler.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mercedes
  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1916
    Mercedes McCambridge born
    American actress
  3. 1935
    Mercedes Sosa born
    Argentine singer
  4. 1991
    Peak, #164
    1,798 babies named Mercedes — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #382.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Mercy occasionally borrowed from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Mercedes Sosa · Argentine singer, 1935–2009
  • Mercedes McCambridge · American actress, 1916–2004
  • Mercedes Ruehl · American actress, born 1948
  • Mercedes Moné · American professional wrestler and actress, born 1992
  • Mercedes of Orléans · Queen consort of Spain, 1860–1878

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.