Is Percy ridiculous for a baby boy?!

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Do you think Percy would ridiculous for a boy today? I pass a Percy Street road sign every day and it's really growing on me!! An old name trend too far or so you like it?!

Percy Pig.

Don't go there.

Its even more ridiculous for a schoolboy or grown man, I'm afraid.

(you can call his willy Percy if you want though )

Yes. Yes it is. Totally and indubitably.

I just think Lord Percy from Blackadder! Please don't!

Sorry all I can think of is Percy Pigs. Old fashioned names I like are Alisdair, Henry, George, Frederick etc. ie. more socially acceptable. :)

Yes it is ridiclous - start using a different route.

Percy Sugden off corrie

Percy - Thomas the Tanks friend

...and for some reason Percy Filth was used at college as a euphanism about having it off.

So no.

Please don't. If I were him I'd never forgive you

It's awful IMO, sorry!

I really like it although I would probably put Percival on the birth certificate and call him Percy. My friends grandpa is called Percy and has always been known as Perce.

I think it's a lovely name that will be increasingly used over the next few years and end up being the next Stanley.

Truly truly bad.

He'd grow up looking likeSelwyn Froggat and have serialkiller sausagey fingers.

I used to have a goldfish called Percy.

I like it...

Robert Plant's nickname was Percy due to the size and expertise of his equipment . Not sure if that's a pro or con .

Both of my children have old man's names but I dismissed Percy for being weak. I think Blackadder is possibly responsible.

All Percy's I can think of in fiction are nice but useless.

Awful awful awful

Sounds really effeminate to me. It might be cute for a drooling baby but a grown man called Percy-no, no, no!

very old fashioned and upper class. if you are English, why not?

Sadly I can't see it making a comeback :(

It's a green engine for me now. But Lord Percy just about seals the deal.

Maybe as a middle name to mark a place important to you .

Middle name perhaps?

I like it as a name.

But I do agree you have to think about the associations: Percy in HP wasn't a nice character much of the way through (though he did redeem himself at the end), and I do rather think Blackadder.

I had forgotten about Percy the Pig, and Lord Percy from Blackadder! I don't think the Blackadder reference would make it into playground teasing (different generation) but I'm guessing as long as M&S sell Percy sweets the whole school would call the poor lad piggy. Generally I pretty poor reaction though! Striking it off the list!

What about Perry?

Apart from the whole Kevin and Perry thing, I think it is a lovely name. Short for Peregrine I think, which is not so good.

Incidentally, DS1 is now 5 and I found the list of names that DH and I wrote as our top tens (boys and girls).

What was I thinking

I really love it and nearly used it. I think it might make a comeback. If bloody Stanley can, Percy definitely can.

Percival with Percy as nn.
Sir Percy Blakeney was the Scarlet Pimpernel and he was a very cool grown-up man.

I think it is lovely. I also like it as a nn for Persephone (for a girl obv).
I would use Percival on a bc though.