Percy
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Percy
Percy is an adorable old name that is finally shedding its pampered Little Lord Fauntleroy image in this new era of boys with soft yet traditionally male names like Jasper and Elijah. Originating as an aristocratic Norman name, Percy became fairly widespread in England--and to some extent in the US--as an offshoot of the fame of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Percy for boys#1279 US
Percy Bresnahan is a character in the Sinclair Lewis novel Main Street, and one of Thomas the Tank Engine's sidekicks is named Percy; Percy Ignatius Weasley is a Harry Potter character and Perseus "Percy" Jackson is the protagonist of the Heroes of Olympus series.
Percy for girls#9941 US
Percy is a traditional boys' name that could be cute and unexpected for a girl – perhaps as a short form for Persephone or Persis. Adventurous and literary Percy could follow in the footsteps of other boyish nicknames for girls, like Frankie and Charlie.
Percy Haswell was a silent film actress. And Lady Persephone "Percy" Towyn is a character on Upstairs, Downstairs.
Pronounced PER-see.
As of October 2026, Percy ranked #1279 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #98 in 1897, Nameberry popularity #206.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,037 | 70 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,291 | 58 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,652 | 47 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,969 | 73 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,205 | 63 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,793 | 45 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,058 | 69 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #1,812 | 87 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,583 | 112 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,562 | 112 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,257 | 157 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,279 | 154 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Percy on lists
Famous Percys
- Percy Tyrone SledgeBoy
American R&B singer
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyBoy
English poet
- William Percival "Percy" HarvinBoy
American football player
- Percy Lavon JulianBoy
American chemist and inventor
- Percy Lebaron SpencerBoy
American inventor
- Percy Aldridge GraingerBoy
Australian composer
- Percy FaithBoy
Canadian bandleader
- Percy HeathBoy
American jazz bassist
- Percy Walker NellesBoy
Canadian naval chief
- Percy MayfieldBoy
American songwriter
- Percy Romeo Miller Jr.Boy
aka Romeo, American rapper
- Percy Williams BridgmanBoy
American physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- (Arthur) Percy Frank ChapmanBoy
English cricketer
- Percy George Herbert FenderBoy
English cricketer
- Percy Lee SnowBoy
American NFL football player
- PercyBoy
Robert Plant's nickname in English band Led Zeppelin
- Percy HaswellGirl
American stage and film actress (b. 1871)
Percy in pop culture
- Perseus "Percy" JacksonBoy
main character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus
- Percival Ignatius "Percy" WeasleyBoy
character in the Harry Potter series
- Percy BlakeneyBoy
character in "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
- Percy WetmoreBoy
character in Stephen King's "The Green Mile"
- Percy GrimmBoy
murderer of Joe Christmas, acting in the name of patriotism, in Faulkner's "Light in August" (1932)
- PercyBoy
engine in animated series "Thomas and Friends"
- PercyBoy
character in the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- PercyBoy
baby owl in "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell
- Percy PigBoy
brand of gummy candy
- Percy the Park KeeperBoy
book and TV series by Nick Butterworth
- "Percy's SongBoy
" song by Bob Dylan
- Percy BeckerBoy
character in movie "No Hard Feelings"
- "Percy Folio"Boy
17th century Broadside Ballad
- This could be a nickname for PersephoneGirl
Persis, or Pricilla
- Lady Persephone "Percy" TowynGirl
character on Upstairs, Downstairs