Mercedes

5,303 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mercedes in the 2020 census, making it the 6,192nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 56,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,303
Rank: 6,192nd
How common: 1 in 56,400
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mercedes described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 93.8%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Mercedes

Addys Mercedes (born 1973)Cuban pop and world music singer
María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (1880–1904)Spanish princess and Spanish infanta
Gabriel Mercedes (born 1979)taekwondo practitioner from Dominican Republic

People named Mercedes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mercedes

Also a first name

Mercedes has been given to 46,575 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.