Names like Percy

[MonkeyBirdy]

We're expecting a boy and I'm having such a hard time finding names I love. Like they're all ok but nothing really stands out. Then DH suggested Percy (with Percival on the birth certificate) and after an initial wtf reaction I think I really love it.

It has everything I like in a name - classic, not too common, nice to say, 2 syllables (so it fits with the rest of our names - I don't know why but this is a big deal for me).

I think it's due a comeback...

I know about Percy pigs. They're a nice sweet though! Plus we don't live in the UK and they're not really a thing here.

Is Percy really that awful? If you think so can you suggest some similar names.. he'll hopefully end up going to a posh school unless we have some financial catastrophe so I'm not concerned about the name being too public school.

Percy Jackson is cool! I think it's a great name.

Most of the Percys I know are dogs.

Please don't

How about Tristan? Percy is okay, but not very manly to my ears. I think, if I were a man, I’d want something a little more rugged.

I'm not a fan, sorry but if you like it, go for it!

Other suggestions which, to me, have the same vibe:
Perry
Gordon
Maurice
Harold
Bertram
Victor
Nigel
Leslie
Kenneth/ Kenny
Leonard/ Lenny
Lionel
Francis/ Frankie
Frederick/ Freddie
Edmund/ Eddie
Wilbur
Ernest
Albert
Alfred
Archibald/ Archie
Dennis
Donald /Donnie
Ronald/ Ronnie
Reginald / Reggie

Never heard the expression 'Point Percy at the porcelain'?

I know a baby Percy and I did raise an eyebrow when I first heard the name, but it's grown on me now.

My suggestion for an alternative is Edwin, which I think ticks most of your boxes.

I quite like it!

Thomas
James
Edward
Gordon

I like Percy, no worse than the other old man style names that have come back

I've always liked Laurence, nn Laurie.

@Gladimnotcampinginthisweather

Never heard the expression 'Point Percy at the porcelain'?

Not until I looked up previous baby Percy name threads haha. It sounds like something an elderly uncle would say...

Christ alive no.
I think it actually might make a comeback though, but will quickly go the way of Alfie/Freddie etc.

I think Its really cute 😍

Who on earth uses 'point Percy at the porcelain?' Do these people live in the 1950s? It's a cute name, no different to all the other cute, little boy names.

Sorry no, Point Percy was the first thing I thought of
My uncle changed his name as soon as he was old enough and so did his brother Cecil 😀
Wilfred nn Wilf is nice

‘Leslie’

‘Percy’: 1971 British comedy film about the world's first penis transplant. Stars Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Cyd Hayman, Julia Foster, Adrienne Posta and others.

Very outdated: A pet name for the penis.

Percy is slang for the penis. Percy (shortened from Percy Thrower) is London Cockney rhyming slang for telephone (blower).
'point percy at the porcelain'.

Always recommend doing a quick Google search before choosing a 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.

Other two syllable names outside the top 200 you might like are:
Ambrose
Cedric
Francis
Gregor
Linus
Remy
Rufus
Stellan

Percy is one of those names where its that awful that spills over into being adorable.
Names in a similar vein.
Cecil.
Norman
Wilbur
Trevor
Cedric
Dennis
Cyril

I like it! Maybe it’s a regional thing but I’ve never heard anyone say “point Percy at the porcelain!”
Wilfred
Stanley
Sidney

I really dislike it, sorry. It's your decision of course but you have to think of your child growing up with a name like that. If you're only mixing in upper class circles and planning on sending your child to private school then you may be ok, otherwise no.

I like Percy.

Also Peter.

I don't like Percy much myself but there's nothing wrong with it.

Similar names might be Monty, Hugo, Jonty, Digby, Bertie, Ralph (esp. pronounced Rafe), Rudy, Hector...

I’m of an age where my association is Lord Percy Percy, and let’s be honest, he didn’t do the name any favours.

I dunno, i can’t imagine being wooed by a debonair, devilishly good looking … Percy.