The surname may perhaps have been given to a poacher, or perhaps a 'warrior renowned for forcing his way through fortifications'. In other cases the evidence is not explicit. The modern trend to randomly appropriate male names for girls did not exist in the 1720s (which the Author's Note establishes as the period of the novel), nor did names ending in Y particularly sound like girls' names to people of the time. If you and your husband are looking to use is as a nickname instead you could possibly consider: Persophone I dont care for it as a birth certificate name on a girl, as Im not generally a fan of the boy-name-on-a-girl trend. Congrats! At the top of the list for boy dog names is Max and for . One of the earliest example often cited is Lord Percy Seymour (1696-1721) son of the 6th Duke of Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Percy, the sole Percy heiress. When you call out, "Here, Zigzag!" or "Sit, Pixel!" you can be sure that yours is the only dog at the dog park that will respond. PERSEPHONE. No lists exist, but you may add a list. It's unclear whether Percy is the character's nn or real name, but I can only think of Persephone as the name for which Percy would be nn. Is Percy ridiculous for a baby boy?! | Mumsnet Girls names with the nickname Percy - Girl Names - Nameberry It ranked #29 with 41 babies. Is Percy a boy or a girl in Thomas? - Pvillage.org Percy - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity | Nameberry Hyphenation: Percy: Number of syllables: 2: Character length: 5: Shel is a teenage girl who is likely of Cherokee descent living in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Percy - Baby girl name meaning, origin, and popularity The name 'Itali' is a girl's name derived from the ancient Italian origin which translates to the country Italy itself. 9. Swistle (main blog) She whispered something and Malcolm began to laugh while the girl slapped him and pulled out a bronze sword Wait bronze sword, oh no. when I was little. Main Swistle lives with her husband Paul and their pseudonymed children Robert (born 1999), William (born 2001), twins Elizabeth and Edward (born 2005), and Henry (born 2007). [name]Persis[/name] Bree: Strong and full of virtue. His family had a long connection with the town, at least back to the reign of Edward III when Peter Percy was the Scarborough MP. No one thinks of Percy Jackson? To me its a perfect little girl name- feminine but spunky. * Perseus "Percy" Jackson, the main character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series. [name]Purcell[/name] He was the ancestor of a powerful feudal family who later became the Earls of Northumberland and then Dukes of Northumberland. Percy has a indestructible fiddle. The first three, as far as I know, were made up by the ones using them, the first two based on the name [name]Perseus[/name], the third on [name]Percival[/name]. There is one drawback to the nn Percy. Sounds like a name for a cute little Chihuahua.