as a Last Name
- 3,666
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Percy
Meaning & Origins
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Persius + the locative suffix -acum. The suggestion has also been made that it is a nickname from Old French perce(r) ‘to pierce or breach’ + haie ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’, referring either to a soldier remembered for his breach of a fortification, or in jest to a poacher who was in the habit of breaking into a private park.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,666
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Percy per capita
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