Merci is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Merci is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Merci. In the SmartGenius ranking, Merci is #3,419 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Merci.
The first name Merci is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 98 Americans in total bear this name. And these 98 women are located in only five states: California, Georgia, Michigan, Tennessee and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Merci 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 girls and women named Merci in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 235,219 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Merci.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Merci is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Merci 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 Merci, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Merci
Merci
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
C
I
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
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R
C
I
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. Merci sounds like this:
