Percival
Percival Origin and Meaning
There are several Percivals scattered through the Harry Potter series, which might help transform the old-fangled, fussy image it has accrued. Actually, the original Percival was the one perfectly pure Knight of the Round Table, a worthy hero. The name was invented in the twelfth century by a poet named Chretien de Troyes, for his ideal knight in the poem Percevale, a Knight of King Arthur.
Percival is found in other forms of literature as well, including Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" contains a section devoted to Sir Percival. Wagner transformed the name to Parsifal for his opera.
Percy, which seems like a nickname for Percival but is really a stand-alone Norman place name, is beginning to attract some favorable attention from cutting-edge namers.
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20 Names Similar to Percival
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Famous People Named Percival
- Percival Lawrence LowellAmerican businessman and astronomer
- Percival EverettAmerican novelist
- Percival Green SpencerEnglish balloonist
- Percival Leitch HusseyAustralian cricketer
- Percival DraytonU.S. Navy captain
- William Percival "Percy" HarvinAmerican football player
- Troy PercivalAmerican baseball player
- Neil Percival YoungCanadian singer,songwriter
- Percival SerleAustralian biographer
Percival in Pop Culture
- Percivalocelot in Achievement Hunter's "Let's Play Minecraft" series
- Sir Percivallegendary Knight of the Round Table
- Sir Percival Blakeneymain character in the "Scarlet Pimpernel" series
- Sir Percival Glydecharacter in "The Woman in White" (1860) by Wilkie Collins
- Percival Ignatius "Percy" Weasleycharacter in the Harry Potter series
- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledorecharacter in the Harry Potter series and son of Percival Dumbledore
- Percival Prattwizard poet in the Harry Potter series
- Percival Gravescharacter in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
- Percival Spence Parkscharacter in video game series "Resident Evil"
- Percival "Perry" Coxdoctor on the TV show "Scrubs"
- Percival Daltoncharacter on TV's "Little House on the Prairie"
- Percival Wemys Madisoncharacter in book/movie "Lord of the Flies"
- Percival C. McLeachvillain in Disney's "The Rescuers Down Under"
- Mr Percivalpelican in Australian movie "Storm Boy"
- Percival Pettigrew Pennington Pittcharacter in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Percival Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III "Percy"a character in the Dungeons and Dragons series Critical Role
- Charles Percival St. Cloudmain character in movie "Charlie St. Cloud"
- PercivalPolish folk band
- PercivalBritish aircraft company