What do you think of Percival?

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What do you think of Percival as a boy's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.

I think it will be ready for a revival in about 200 years.

I love it, love Percy and Percival for on birth certificate but was not brave enough to use it. Everyone else thought I was mad. Ds ended up being Archie and I love Archibald but again not brave enough to put that on birth certificate .

Wet.

Not keen to be honest but if you love it do it. Percy has a few negs - another name for the penis (but there are so many!) and that wet/treacherous brother in Harry Potter - still, he came good in the end so not all bad!

I like Archie too but not Archibald - ditto Freddie but not Frederick.

PMSL @ choosy.

I could never go with it, because of Lord Percy Percy from Blackadder who was a complete and utter twit. Endearing, but a twit nonetheless.

I like Percy as a nickname.

My first thought is that it's a bit wet - although thinking about it more, I went to a ball with a total wanker called Percy when I was about 18 - he wasn't wet, just an arrogant t*at....

Sounds like a prissy, uptight public school boy.

Maybe I'm being judgey...but still I don't like it.

Percy/Percival is a weed.
At least Lancelot has some well known heroic connotations

I don't like it.

Sorry, I had a cat called Percy....

I think it's ridiculous.

No, sorry.

wet is the best word for it

I just had to join this forum so I could comment on this thread!
Percival (Percy) is a family name for me, and I was wondering if it was too "ahead of the curve" to use yet (I definitely think it will have a revival as the other "old fashioned" names become considered boring), and it seems in the UK the time might be just about right, perhaps a bit early but I don't think it will be too long!
As for "pointing the Percy" - I had never heard this, and am so glad I do now - I always wondered why Grand Dad was called "Jock"!!!

Can also be shortened to Val.