Mercer is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Mercer is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Mercer. In the SmartGenius ranking, Mercer is #2,943 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mercer.
The first name Mercer is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 141 Americans in total bear this name. And these 141 men are located in only five states: California, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Washington (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Mercer and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Mercer in relation to it’s male population is Georgia. And yet even there, only one in 46,781 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Mercer present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Mercer is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Mercer and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mercer, you can simply say:
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Cat
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mercer
Mercer
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
E
R
C
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
E
R
C
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mercer sounds like this:
