Name: Percy
Gender: Male
Usage: Percy, of anglo-saxon origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Percy are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Percy across the world, see Percival.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Percy is: Pierce valley, Piercing the valley.
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Numerology of the first name Percy: 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 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Percy is ranked on the 3,051st position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 116300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Percy has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Percy for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Percy is both a given name in its own right, and a short form of the given name Percival or Perseus.
The following list includes people with the given name Percy:
- Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916), English barrister and writer
- Percy Adlon (b. 1935), German film and television director, writer, and producer
- Henry Percy Brewster (1816–1884), lawyer and personal secretary of Sam Houston
- Percy Cherrett. (born 1899), English footballer
- Percy Zachariah Cox (1864–1937) British administrator and diplomat
- Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, World War I & II [1]
- William Percy French (1854–1920), Irish songwriter and entertainer
- Percy Gardner (1846–1937), English classical archaeologist
- Percy Grainger, Australian composer
- Percy Harvin, wide Receiver for the Minnesota Vikings
- Percy Heath, American jazz bassist
- Percy Jackson (character), protagonist of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
- Percy Jones (disambiguation), multiple people
- Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), American research chemist
- Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870–1948), English surgeon and ornithologist
- Percy MacKaye (1875–1956), American dramatist and poet
- Percy Metcalfe English artist, currency designer
- Percy Robert Miller, aka Master P, hip-hop artist and entrepreneur
- Percy Romeo Miller, aka Romeo Miller, hip-hop artist, college basketball player, entertainer and son of Percy Robert Miller
- Percy Montgomery (b. 1974), South African rugby player
- Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875–1964), Scottish born Canadian architect
- Sir Percy Noble, British Admiral in World War II, Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches
- Percy Noble, former Member of Parliament in Canada
- Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934), son of William Rockefeller, director of Remington Arms Company
- Percy Ross (1916–2001), millionaire philanthropist
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet
- Percy Spender (1897–1985), Australian politician and diplomat
- Percy Thrower (1913–1988), British gardener and television host
- Percy Vear (1911–1982), British professional boxer during the 1920s and 1930s
- Percy Weasley, brother of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter books
- Percy Marshall Young (1912–2004), British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher
- Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason trial
English: originally a transferred use of a famous surname, but long established as a given name, and now often erroneously taken as a pet or informal form of Percival. The surname originated as a Norman territorial name, borne by a baronial family who had held a fief in Normandy called Perci (from Late Latin Persiācum, composed of the Gallo-Roman personal name Persius and the local suffix -ācum). As a given name it was taken up in the early 18th century in the Seymour family, which had intermarried with the Percy family. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was also distantly connected with this family, and it was partly due to his influence that the given name became more widespread. It is at present out of fashion.
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