Percy

[stellarfox]

Usable or not?

Just reminds me of Percy pigs

I like Percy. I prefer it as a nickname for Percival, but with the amount of Freddies, Alfies and Evies, Percy will be fine. It's rising in popularity though, so definitely usable.

I agree on the pig thing, you don't want other children calling him Percy pig

I love Percy. But DH and anyone else who I’ve ever said it to has had a negative reaction.

Oh it's such a feeble little name.

"Point Percy at the porcelain..."

I wouldn't. Although I recognise I'm a bit outdated!

It's possibly the wettest name ever. Well close enough. Cuthbert would probably take first place.

I really wouldn't.
It is just about the wettest name, a pp said, but with the added negative as it being a common slang name for a penis, and then, even if you think those two reasons are outdated, it will be forever associated with a Pig for current dc.
Just an awful name.

Mumsnet really don't like Percy. You'll have lots of pig, penis and 'wet' comments on here. But if you look at the stats Percy has increased significantly and there were 128 Percys born at the last count. It wouldn't surprise me if Percy started to approach the top hundred in the next five or so years. So even if everyone else here says its dreadful for a variety of reasons, it's a name in moderate use so far from universal dislike.

@sesquipedalia

"Point Percy at the porcelain..."

I wouldn't. Although I recognise I'm a bit outdated!

Yes, Percy always reminds me of this too.

OP - please reconsider, there are lots of lovely names out there.....

Horrible

For a girl short for Persephone. Other than that, no.

It means penis

Sorry, Percy Pigs or Percy Weasley

Oh it's such a feeble little name.

It really is.

It’s v wet

Not usable for above reasons.

This guy.

You can do better, OP.

@Moonshine11

Just reminds me of Percy pigs

Me too. God help him if he's on the chubby side too.

I must be old if I'm the first to say Percy Sugden.
I quite like it!

I love the name Percy
I don't see it as any wetter than Alfie Albie Archie etc all those type of names are popular. I prefer Percy

Reminds me of the green train on Thomas the Tank Engine.
I really don't like it

Awful. Sorry. Makes me think of Percy Sugden, Percy pigs and Percy from Thomas the Tank Engine

Not for me, no.
Although, bizarrely, I like Perseus.

Awful. In the 1970’s, there was a very dodgy character in films called Percy.