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Like Percy but not Percy?

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bittapitta · 04/08/2015 22:45

I love the name Percy but I searched for old threads about it on this board and it looks like a resounding NO ("Percy Pig" / "pointing Percy at the porcelain" which I must admit I'd never heard before!)

Can anyone suggest a similar classic boys name that isn't Top 100? We like recognisable but obsolete...a lot to ask!

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Dilligufdarling · 04/08/2015 22:48

Bertie?

imsorryiasked · 04/08/2015 22:49

Wilf

Dilligufdarling · 04/08/2015 22:49

Quentin.
Cedric
Crispin
Bernard
Derek
Edgar
Horace

Chchchchanging · 04/08/2015 22:51

I thought Bertie too
Or Albie

Fishwives · 04/08/2015 22:51

Percy's not wildly to my taste, but I know a very cool one who must be about eight by now - sparky, confident and certainly not oppressed by his name.

doublepotions · 04/08/2015 22:52

I would go with Percy if you love it, I quite like it.

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bittapitta · 04/08/2015 22:52

Bertie is hugely popular now though! But I used to like it.

I like Bernard, Edgar, is Quentin a bit too posh?

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Angelto5 · 04/08/2015 23:01

Percival
Titus
Enoch
Cornelius
Abiather

BabCNesbitt · 04/08/2015 23:03

Barney? (If you can disregard that effing dinosaur.)

choccyp1g · 04/08/2015 23:03

Hector.

Sophronia · 04/08/2015 23:03

I like Percy!

I'd suggest Stanley but I think that's in the top 100.

How about...

Ernest / Ernie
Leonard / Lenny
Sidney / Sid
Wilfred / Wilf / Freddie
Ronald / Ronnie
Morris
Ivor
Reggie
Frank

urbinosparrot · 04/08/2015 23:06

Edgar is fab.

How about Barnaby or Augustus?

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bittapitta · 04/08/2015 23:08

Some lovely suggestions thank you!

Not sure about Enoch though - I'm young and can only associate it with Enoch Powell Hmm

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Cloggal · 04/08/2015 23:12

Toby

Angelto5 · 04/08/2015 23:13

Enoch is an old family name from my dm's side Smile

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bittapitta · 04/08/2015 23:14

Toby is Top 50 cloggal

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SirPercyPilkington · 04/08/2015 23:19

Ahem, what's wrong with Percy?!

I do like it myself but also like Thomas, Gordon, Edward and Diesel.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 04/08/2015 23:31

Herbie
Bernie

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bittapitta · 04/08/2015 23:32

Arf SirPercy! Grin

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pinkpudding · 04/08/2015 23:35

Rupert

IHeartKingThistle · 04/08/2015 23:37

Eric?

or....drumroll..........

Cyril?

mamadoc · 04/08/2015 23:37

Peter

You don't get many of those these days surely.
And a rabbit association is better than a piggy one

WankerDeAsalWipe · 04/08/2015 23:40

Vivian
Jeremy
Piers
Rupert
Barnaby
Herbert
Hubert
Edwin
Halbert or just Hal
Lawrence

rockybalboa · 04/08/2015 23:46

Percy is awesome! not helpful I know

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