Percival
A boys’ name of Old French origin, meaning pierce the valley.
Babies a year
47
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#735
47 babies
Percival by the numbers
In 2025, 47 babies in England and Wales were named Percival. In the US, 19 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 25 babies in 1922, making it a 1920s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Percival. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Percevalpierce the valley4 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Percival, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Percival
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