Details for the forename Mercy

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Mercy (female)


Variants:	Misericordia (F)
Pet Name(s):	Merry (F)
Derivative(s):	Mercia (F) Merry (F)
Lesser Synonym(s):	Mercedes (F)

Source(s):	English Parish Register freereg.rootsweb.com The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:	English name popular during Cromwell's Puritan Commonwealth as a "virtue name", signifying "compassion"; from the Latin for "wages" or "reward". The cognate Spanish name Mercedes has a parallel derivation from the Spanish word for "mercies". In old documents in Latin, Misericordia is believed to represent the name Mercy, with appropriate case endings.