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Mercedes
Pronounced /mɚˈseɪdiz/
Rank in 2024
#1,453
Born in 2024
151
Peak year
1991 · #164
Origin
Spanish
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 151 girls were named Mercedes, about 1 in every 10,683.
- It peaked in 1991 with 1,798 babies, ranked #164.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 46,052 girls have been named Mercedes since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Mercedes per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.6Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 4,558 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Silent: 3,165 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,205 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,047 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Millennials: 15,627 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Gen Z: 13,479 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,622 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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.
- A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Mercy occasionally borrowed from Spanish.
- Origin
- Spanish
- Say it
- /mɚˈseɪdiz/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Mercedes, CC BY-SA 4.0.