Mercy

girls:

10k births since 1881

#1595 (72nd percentile)

boys:

182 births since 1919

#4404 (4th percentile)

overall:

10.2k births since 1881

#2644 (66th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
9,990
Peak Births
439
Peak Year
2019
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
42.5%
Current Percentile
32.9%
Peak Rank
#213
Current Rank
#636
Female statistics
Total Births
182
Peak Births
27
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
2.4%
Current Percentile
2.4%
Peak Rank
#535
Current Rank
#889
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Mercy

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mercy. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 97.6% confident that Mercy is pronounced as MER-see. The next most likely pronunciation is MER-SEE, at 2.4% confidence.

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MER-see (2 syllables)
Verified
97.6% confidence
M ER1 S IY0
MER-SEE (2 syllables)
2.4% confidence
M ER1 S IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

MAHR-see (2 syllables)
9 names 53.8k births
M AA1 R S IY0
mahr-SEE (2 syllables)
3 names 1.8k births
M AA0 R S IY1

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 S 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.