Merci
- #3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births
- #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Given to girls 93.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 991since 1963
Merci over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,459 | 44 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #2,639 | 66 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #2,538 | 69 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,346 | 47 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | — | |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | — | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1963
The first year at least five girls were named Merci! It came in at #5,296, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1966, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Merci is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- Georgia#1,358 · 1 in 7,535
Best ever in a state: #656 in Tennessee, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,358 | 6 | 1 in 7,535 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 928 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #3,459)
- 178 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #3,459)
- 944 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #3,459)
Rise & fade · girls
56 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2019 at #2,538 (69 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 24,324
- Highest: 1 in 24,324 girls born in 2019 were named Merci (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 36,529 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 36.8% of all girls named Merci (365) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 25 | #4,300 (1967) | #5,017 |
| 1970s | 64 | #4,586 (1973) | #7,935 |
| 1980s | 46 | #5,911 (1982) | #9,371 |
| 1990s | 44 | #9,479 (1999) | #11,837 |
| 2000s | 161 | #4,906 (2002) | #7,707 |
| 2010s | 365 | #2,538 (2019) | #4,527 |
| 2020s | 286 | #2,639 (2022) | #3,390 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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