Percy
A boys’ name of Old French origin, meaning pierces the valley; from Perci.
Percy by the numbers
In 2025, 152 babies in England and Wales were named Percy. In the US, 72 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 603 babies in 1921, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Percy. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Perrydweller by the pear tree or ferry239 in the US (2017)
- Pierceto pierce; a form of Piers559 in the US (2017)
- Pearcestone or rock; form of Pierce27 in the US (2017)
- Perezto break forth or burst; spanish form of peretz10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Peircevariant of Pierce; one who pierces5 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Percy, 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 Percy
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