Percy

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) English surname form the Norman territorial name Persiācum, composed of the Roman personal name Persiusof unknown meaning and the local suffix -ācum ^[1]

2) English short form of Percival (see Perceval) ^[1]

Related Names

Perci	♂
Percia	♀
Percie	♂
Percy	♂
Persey	♂
Persi	♂
Persie	♂
Perssy	♂
Persy	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1845 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		0	2	600	1713
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	36	n.a
Norway[5]		0	0	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	5	n.a	18
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Percy.

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi