Mermaid

Quality:

Mermaid - legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the fin of a fish. Article “Mermaid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 71.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 17 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4183^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3391^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4288^th most popular in all topics.

The 4725^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7387^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Mermaid”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3391^st place) and edited by 3696 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4725^th place).

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7341 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #171 in April 2021
• Global: #1041 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #538 in May 2021
• Global: #741 in June 2013

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Mermaid		100
2	Japanese (ja) 人魚		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Nàng tiên cá		87.7799
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Havfrue		77.099
5	French (fr) Sirène		76.8725
6	Simple English (simple) Mermaid		71.6781
7	Turkish (tr) Deniz kızı		58.9511
8	Portuguese (pt) Sereia		57.4556
9	Spanish (es) Sirena		56.957
10	Basque (eu) Uhandre (mitologia)		53.6823

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mermaid		20 022 305
2	Spanish (es) Sirena		7 113 366
3	Japanese (ja) 人魚		3 316 037
4	Portuguese (pt) Sereia		2 005 822
5	French (fr) Sirène		1 586 097
6	German (de) Meerjungfrau		1 460 097
7	Chinese (zh) 人魚		1 395 433
8	Indonesian (id) Putri duyung		1 380 823
9	Persian (fa) پری دریایی		1 032 808
10	Arabic (ar) حورية البحر		1 027 457

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mermaid		36 028
2	Japanese (ja) 人魚		6 080
3	Spanish (es) Sirena		4 859
4	French (fr) Sirène		4 299
5	Persian (fa) پری دریایی		2 659
6	German (de) Meerjungfrau		2 451
7	Chinese (zh) 人魚		2 388
8	Portuguese (pt) Sereia		1 892
9	Russian (ru) Морская дева		1 866
10	Hindi (hi) जलपरी		985

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mermaid		1 243
2	Spanish (es) Sirena		299
3	French (fr) Sirène		298
4	German (de) Meerjungfrau		218
5	Japanese (ja) 人魚		193
6	Dutch (nl) Zeemeermin		132
7	Chinese (zh) 人魚		124
8	Portuguese (pt) Sereia		113
9	Hebrew (he) בת ים (מיתולוגיה)		112
10	Turkish (tr) Deniz kızı		64

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Nàng tiên cá		3
2	Arabic (ar) حورية البحر		1
3	Czech (cs) Mořská panna		1
4	German (de) Meerjungfrau		1
5	Basque (eu) Uhandre (mitologia)		1
6	Japanese (ja) 人魚		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Su pərisi		0
8	Danish (da) Havfrue		0
9	Greek (el) Γοργόνα (λαογραφία)		0
10	English (en) Mermaid		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information