Meaning and history
Percy comes from an English noble surname based on the Norman town Perci, itself perhaps from a Gaulish name Latinized as Persius, and first became a given name in that family's honor. It can also shorten Percival; a famous bearer was English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), author of Adonais and Ozymandias.
20062006: 51 births, rank #2,398
2007: 57 births, rank #2,281
2008: 37 births, rank #3,103
2009: 38 births, rank #3,045
2010: 41 births, rank #2,874
20112011: 39 births, rank #2,950
2012: 60 births, rank #2,185
2013: 61 births, rank #2,165
2014: 70 births, rank #2,017
2015: 58 births, rank #2,276
20162016: 47 births, rank #2,626
2017: 73 births, rank #1,958
2018: 63 births, rank #2,189
2019: 45 births, rank #2,766
2020: 69 births, rank #2,046
20212021: 87 births, rank #1,799
2022: 112 births, rank #1,574
2023: 112 births, rank #1,558
2024: 157 births, rank #1,256
20252025: 154 births, rank #1,276
Percy rose from #963 to #927 for boys between 1986 and 1988. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 603 births.