Name: Percival
Gender: Male
Usage: Percival is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Percival are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Percival across the world, see Perceval.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Percival is: Pierce valley, Piercing the valley.
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Numerology of the first name Percival: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Percival is ranked on the 8,286th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 32200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Percival has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Percival for each year.
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History and Origin
English: from Arthurian legend in its Old French versions, where the name is spelled Perceval. According to Chrétien de Troyes (12th century) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (c.1170–1220), Perceval (German Parzifal) was the perfectly pure and innocent knight who alone could succeed in the quest for the Holy Grail (a cup or bowl with supernatural powers, which in medieval legend was identified with the chalice that had received Christ's blood at the Crucifixion). Later versions of the Grail legend assign this role to Sir Galahad. The name Perceval probably represents a drastic remodelling of the Celtic name Peredur, as if from Old French perce(r) to pierce + va' valley. This may well have been influenced by Percy, which was similarly analysed as a compound of perce(r) + haie hedge.
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