as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for a trader (Old French mercier, from Late Latin mercarius, a derivative of merx ‘merchandise’). Use as a given name in the United States may have originated in honour of General Hugh Mercer, killed at the battle of Princeton in 1777. It may sometimes also have been chosen as a kind of male equivalent of Mercy.
| 10,810th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 750
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Mercer per capita
- 1919
- marked the height of its popularity
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