Merci
Merci is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201969 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1963
- 1,000people given the name
The story in the numbers
947 girls have been named Merci in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 69 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 39%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 53 boys have also been given it, 5.3% of the total.
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Merci was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Merci
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Oonapeak 2015
- Aminapeak 2017
- Athenapeak 2022
- Zahrapeak 2024
- Neemapeak 2019
- Aviapeak 2016
- Mirapeak 2024
- Andipeak 2023
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.