Percy
Percy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 157 births. Its best rank was 98th, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1570.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921603 births
- Best rank
- #98in 1897
- Since 1880
- 32,052people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,052 boys have been named Percy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 603 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 108 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Percy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,166 | |
| 1890s | 1,571 | |
| 1900s | 1,517 | |
| 1910s | 4,210 | |
| 1920s | 5,439 | |
| 1930s | 3,860 | |
| 1940s | 3,697 | |
| 1950s | 3,537 | |
| 1960s | 2,158 | |
| 1970s | 1,538 | |
| 1980s | 1,037 | |
| 1990s | 736 | |
| 2000s | 492 | |
| 2010s | 557 | |
| 2020s | 537 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Percy was the 220th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Percy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dewittpeak 1921
- Earlypeak 1927
- Odiepeak 1918
- Claudepeak 1920
- Archiepeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Roepeak 1916
- Parkpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.