Name: Mercedes
Gender: Female
Usage: Mercedes, of basque origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Mercedes are in general originating from France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Mercedes across the world, see Mercédès.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Mercedes is: Mercies, Merciful.
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Numerology of the first name Mercedes: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Mercedes is ranked on the 1,384th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 338700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Mercedes has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Mercedes for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Mercedes is a feminine given name of Spanish origin, referring to a title for the Virgin Mary, "Our Lady of Mercy".
Spanish: Marian name, from the liturgical title Maria de las Mercedes (literally, ‘Mary of Mercies’; in English, ‘Our Lady of Ransom’). Latin mercēdes originally meant ‘wages’ or ‘ransom’; in Christian theology, Christ's sacrifice is regarded as a ‘ransom for the sins of mankind’, and hence an ‘act of ransom’ was seen as identical with an ‘act of mercy’. There are special feasts in the Catholic calendar on 10 August and 24 September to commemorate the Virgin under this name. The name is now occasionally used in England, and more commonly in America, but normally only by Roman Catholics.
Pet form: Merche.
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