Girl
Mercy
Mercy is a girl's name, a distinctive, less common pick, that is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s.
EnglishEnglish virtue name
EtymologyMeaning "compassion, forgiveness"
Births by decade
1900s
61
1910s
192
1920s
359
1930s
368
1940s
397
1950s
494
1960s
371
1970s
530
1980s
421
1990s
677
2000s
1,535
2010s
2,333
Peaked in the 2010s · 7,738 total U.S. births since 1900