girls:
181 births since 1914
#5535 (3rd percentile)
boys:
764 births since 1905
#3823 (17th percentile)
overall:
945 births since 1905
#6794 (12th percentile)
The name Merced is the #6,794 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 945 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 12.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,823 (16.6% percentile) for all time with 764 births since 1905. For girls, it ranks #5,535 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 181 births since 1914.
Merced first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Merced is available in 92 out of the 117 years between 1905 and 2021 (87 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Merced has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Merced were boys.
For boys, Merced reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #537) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Merced reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #603) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merced".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Merced. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Merced is pronounced as mer-SEHD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is merst, at 14.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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