Percy

[roarfeckingroar]

Can I?

I'm struggling so much with boys names. Percy has a really lovely family meaning to me and I love it. But is it due a comeback or just no?

No

I would say that one of the most unkind things you could do to a baby boy is to call him Percy.

@Howmuchlongercanthislast omg those are all my boys' names

@HouseOfEdwards

Support for Percy? Jockstrap?

That made me out loud

And partially quoting Whatsyourflava, this particular Mumsnetter is still horrified by the names Ralph and Albert

Merlin ... yes !!!

Percy is cute for n a little boy but that boy will grow up to be a man.

No woman has gone weak at the knees and cried "Take me now Percy".

Percy sounds like the kind of man that cries after sex.

I know one baby Percy

Rufus?

It's cute, but it's also quite close to 'Pervy'.

I love Percy it’s due a comeback with all the other old names that have become popular.

Most names will have something associated with it and I’d associate it more with Percy from Thomas the tank engine than a sweet.

It's a nice enough name, but I have an ex who has always referred to his cock as Percy, so that's kind of ruined it for me!

I really love Percy. X

Please don't, poor kid. I do love it on here when the op suggests an awful name and posters pile on with such hideous alternatives that you end up thinking that maybe the original name wasnt maybe that bad after all

An ex called his dick Percy

I’ve never heard it as a word for a penis!

However, I do see it as a bit wet and a bit posh - I’d put it in the same pile as Rupert.

How about:
Stanley
Henry
Thomas
Gordon
James
Donald
Douglas nn Dougie

And yes those are all names from Thomas the Tank Engine, but I think they share a Percy vibe!

Pig, he will get teased, good luck with your search.

Was fine in its day and still nice for the oldies that are still around, but seems terribly old fashioned for a baby/anyone under the age of 80!

I like Percy, but then I have a weakness for boys names which MN posters overall find "wet". It seems very tied up in misogyny and the avoidance of any "soft/weak" qualities in little boys. (I also find the whole penis thing ridiculous- there are about a hundred slang names for it, are we to avoid them all? Maybe more people need to raise their kids to use the proper anatomical terms for their genitals, and we can reclaim some lovely names.)

You might like:
Francis
Robin
Arthur
Rupert
Toby
... all of which are on my own longlist! "Wet" though they may be

I don't find any of those names wet ! They're lovely

Percy is great and it's numbers have massively increased In the last few years if you look at official statistics so it's already on its way back- use it!!. If not how about Barnaby.

I was going to say that I quite like it and i've never heard it used as slang for penis so maybe that's a regional dialect thing??

No, sorry, percy parrot!

I would go with John Thomas

Percius?

Lord Percy from Blackadder. Sorry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy(19711_film)