Mercury

girls:

94 births since 2009

#5622 (2nd percentile)

boys:

185 births since 1972

#4401 (4th percentile)

overall:

279 births since 1972

#7460 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mercury".

1972 2023 19722023

Key Statistics

Total Births
94
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
2009
Peak Percentile
1.2%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#930
Current Rank
#936
Female statistics
Total Births
185
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1972
Peak Percentile
1.2%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#638
Current Rank
#900
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Mercury

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mercury. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 82.1% confident that Mercury is pronounced as MER-kyer-ee. The next most likely pronunciation is MER-kyue-ree, at 10.3% confidence.

MER-kyer-ee (3 syllables)
Verified
82.1% confidence
M ER1 K Y ER0 IY0
MER-kyue-ree (3 syllables)
10.3% confidence
M ER1 K Y UW0 R IY0
MER-kyoo-ree (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
M ER1 K Y UH0 R IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Mercury. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Mercury, please vote using the thumbs up button.

muh-KEH-ree (3 syllables)
1 name 215 births
M AH0 K EH1 R IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

MAH-ree-kay (3 syllables)
1 name 212 births
M AA1 R IY0 K EY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M ER1 K Y ER0 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.