Percy

French surname from place name Perci-en-Auge

"one who pierces the valley"

Percy Origin and Meaning

Variation of Percival

Percy Rank in US Top 1000

# 931 in the US

Percy Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 258 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Percy

• 258 Nameberry 2025
• 257 Unique 2024
• 332 England 2024
• 75 Cats 2022

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Famous People Named Percy

• Percy Tyrone Sledge American R&B singer
• Percy Bysshe Shelley English poet
• William Percival "Percy" Harvin American football player
• Percy Lavon Julian American chemist and inventor
• Percy Lebaron Spencer American inventor
• Percy Aldridge Grainger Australian composer
• Percy Faith Canadian bandleader
• Percy Heath American jazz bassist
• Percy Walker Nelles Canadian naval chief
• Percy Mayfield American songwriter
• Percy Romeo Miller Jr. aka Romeo, American rapper
• Percy Williams Bridgman American physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
• (Arthur) Percy Frank Chapman English cricketer
• Percy George Herbert Fender English cricketer
• Percy Lee Snow American NFL football player
• Percy Robert Plant's nickname in English band Led Zeppelin

The name Percy in Pop Culture

• Perseus "Percy" Jackson main character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus
• Percival Ignatius "Percy" Weasley character in the Harry Potter series
• Percy Blakeney character in "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
• Percy Wetmore character in Stephen King's "The Green Mile"
• Percy Grimm murderer of Joe Christmas, acting in the name of patriotism, in Faulkner's "Light in August" (1932)
• Percy engine in animated series "Thomas and Friends"
• Percy character in the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Percy baby owl in "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell
• Percy Pig brand of gummy candy
• Percy the Park Keeper book and TV series by Nick Butterworth
• "Percy's Song " song by Bob Dylan
• Percy Becker character in movie "No Hard Feelings"