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Is Percy ridiculous for a baby boy?!

72 replies

birdofthenorth · 02/03/2011 23:54

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?!

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moondog · 02/03/2011 23:55

Percy Pig.

Don't go there.

GrimmaTheNome · 03/03/2011 00:06

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

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

BunnyLebowski · 03/03/2011 00:08

Yes. Yes it is. Totally and indubitably.

bemybebe · 03/03/2011 00:14

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

cat64 · 03/03/2011 00:18

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mamawhoboreme · 03/03/2011 01:03

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

ChippingInMistressSteamMop · 03/03/2011 01:19

Yes it is ridiclous - start using a different route.

lovenamechange100 · 03/03/2011 02:06

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.

WhamBam · 03/03/2011 02:08

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

booandbump · 03/03/2011 07:19

It's awful IMO, sorry!

RetroMum1 · 03/03/2011 08:06

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.

Bucharest · 03/03/2011 08:10

Truly truly bad.

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

I used to have a goldfish called Percy.

FanellaFudge · 03/03/2011 08:13

I like it...

fruitstick · 03/03/2011 08:18

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

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.

QuickLookBusy · 03/03/2011 08:19

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!

lilly13 · 03/03/2011 08:37

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

randomimposter · 03/03/2011 08:38

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 Hmm.

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 03/03/2011 08:38

Middle name perhaps?

meditrina · 03/03/2011 09:23

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.

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birdofthenorth · 03/03/2011 10:13

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!

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moneydunce · 03/03/2011 10:17

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.

moneydunce · 03/03/2011 10:18

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 Shock

MackerelOfFact · 03/03/2011 10:28

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

DandyDan · 03/03/2011 10:39

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

tummytickler · 03/03/2011 11:40

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.