Mercer
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to boys 86.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1881 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,345since 1881
Mercer over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,539 | 52 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #3,412 | 34 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #3,021 | 40 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #3,085 | 37 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | — | #3,687 | 28 | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | — | #5,578 | 14 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,265 | 13 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,287 | 12 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #2,326 | 11 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,890 | 14 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,799 | 16 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,326 | 10 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,214 | 11 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,079 | 14 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,933 | 16 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | #3,451 | 7 |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | #1,981 | 16 |
| 1925 | — | #1,451 | 26 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,964 | 17 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,696 | 21 | |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1921 | — | #2,059 | 16 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,747 | 20 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,752 | 19 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | #1,986 | 15 |
| 1916 | — | #2,259 | 12 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,310 | 11 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,868 | 12 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | #928 | 6 | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #1,031 | 5 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Mercer! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1898, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Mercer
- 506 spots since 2024 (#3,045 → #2,539)
- 879 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #2,539)
- 546 spots since 2015 (#3,085 → #2,539)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1881 at #866 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1881–1899
- Highest: 1 in 17,702 boys born in 1899 were named Mercer (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,848 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #866 in 1881, was only 1 in 20,147 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all boys named Mercer (308) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #866 (1881) | #949 |
| 1890s | 6 | #928 (1899) | #928 |
| 1900s | 6 | #1,277 (1909) | #1,277 |
| 1910s | 98 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,094 |
| 1920s | 162 | #1,451 (1925) | #2,168 |
| 1930s | 78 | #2,079 (1930) | #2,763 |
| 1940s | 100 | #1,799 (1942) | #2,298 |
| 1950s | 75 | #2,265 (1958) | #3,011 |
| 1960s | 48 | #2,504 (1962) | #3,205 |
| 1970s | 19 | #3,836 (1970) | #4,445 |
| 1980s | 6 | #6,941 (1989) | #6,941 |
| 1990s | 42 | #4,762 (1999) | #6,941 |
| 2000s | 155 | #3,687 (2007) | #5,529 |
| 2010s | 308 | #2,726 (2016) | #3,681 |
| 2020s | 232 | #2,539 (2025) | #3,142 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mercer in 1899
Top boys' names in 1899
More about 1899
boys
106,211 boys got a published name in 1899; 1 in 17,702 of them was named Mercer, which outranked 22.7% of the 1,200 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).