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Percy
Pronounced /ˈpɜɹsi/
Rank in 2024
#1,254
Born in 2024
157
Peak year
1921 · #220
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 157 boys were named Percy, about 1 in every 10,926.
- It peaked in 1921 with 603 babies, ranked #220.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 32,052 boys have been named Percy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Percy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 9,985 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Silent: 6,974 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,309 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,611 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,470 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 811 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 954 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Proper noun senses 1 (surname) and 3 (place names) are derived from Norman Percy (“a baronial surname”), from Percy-en-Auge (“a place in Pays d’Auge, Normandy, France”, literally “Percy in Auge”), from Old French Perci, from Late Latin Persiacum, from Latin Persius (“a Gallo-Roman nomen gentile”), from Etruscan 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (persu); further etymology uncertain, possibly from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). Proper noun sense 2 (given name) is either from the above, or is a clipping of Perc(ival) + -y (suffix forming familiar names). The common noun is derived from the proper noun.
- A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈpɜɹsi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Percy, CC BY-SA 4.0.