How rare is the name Percy?

10,913 people in the United States have the first name Percy, about 1 in 27,676. It ranks #2,330 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

PERCY

#2,330

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,913
About
1 in 27,676
This common or more
79.4%
Who bears it

Of the 10,913 people named Percy, 58.8% reported their origin as Black, 22.5% as White and 10.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Percy peaked in 1921, when 618 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1921
Births that year
618
In 2025*
164 ▼73%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 32,840 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Percy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #288. The largest share of babies named Percy, 31.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2881,178
1890s#3201,593
1900s#4101,539
1910s#4584,318
1920s#5135,583
1930s#5883,961
1940s#7133,757
1950s#8513,589
1960s#1,1882,206
1970s#1,5211,538
1980s#2,1381,036
1990s#3,273736
2000s#5,432492
2010s#5,103577
2020s#3,093737
Before 19019.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2731.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.7%
Baby boom 1946–6419.5%
Generation X 1965–808%
Millennials 1981–964.5%
Generation Z 1997–122.5%
2013 and later3.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Percy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Percy has been most common in Mississippi (14×), Louisiana (7.8×), and Alabama (4.6×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.1×).

23,160 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Percy

#2,328 Ember · 10,925#2,329 Kathrine · 10,914#2,331 Carlee · 10,909#2,332 Kaye · 10,908

Also a last name

As a last name, Percy ranks #7,828 of 156,621, with 4,062 people. See Percy as a last name

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