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From the liturgical title Maria de las Mercedes (literally Maria of Mercies, in English Our Lady of Ransom). Latin mercēdes originally meant 'wages', 'ransom' [1] [2] [3]
Mercedes | ♀ |
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Mercy | ♀ |
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Mersedes | ♀ |
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- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Mercedes |
Genitive: | Mercedes' |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Mercedes |
Genitive: | Mercedeksen |
Partitive: | Mercedestä |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Mercedes |
Genitive: | Mercedes' |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Mercedes |
Genitive: | Mercedes' / Mercedes |
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' [1]
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[4] |
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269 | 1661 | 269 | 1656 | 0 | 5 |
Finland[5] |
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n.a. |
377 | n.a. |
377 | 0 | 0 |
Denmark[6] |
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173 | n.a. |
173 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Iceland[7] |
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2 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[8] |
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64 | n.a. |
64 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[9] |
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0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |