Percy

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) English surname form the Norman territorial name Persiācum, composed of the Roman personal name Persius of unknown meaning and the local suffix -ācum [1] [2]

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

Related Names

Perci
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Percia
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Percie
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Percy
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Persey
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Persi
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Persie
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Perssy
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Persy
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Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Percy
Genitive: Percys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Percy
Genitive: Percyn
Partitive: Percyä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Percy
Genitive: Percys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Percy
Genitive: Percys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2158 people were named Percy (percentage of first or only given name: 27 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
489 1537 4 8 485 1529
Denmark Denmark[7]
32
n.a.
0
n.a.
32
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
27 0 0
n.a.
27
Norway Norway[9]
6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
6
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/