Entry № 6779 · Latin origin

Merce Merce — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MER-seh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Mercy"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Catalan)

A name that means "mercy".

Merce is from the Catalan Mercè — from the Latin merces (mercy, reward) — referring to the devotion to Our Lady of Mercy. Merce is one of the Catalan feminine names.

Mercy — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Mercè
Transliteration
Mercè
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛr.sɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Merce stands.

Merce does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Merces before her.

Real people
Mercè Rodoreda
20th-c. Catalan novelist + La plaça del Diamant 1962.
1908 – 1983
In fiction
Merce (Mare de Déu)
Catalan Our Lady of Mercy.

Names connected to Merce.

The number behind Merce.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Merce reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.