Percy

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Percy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Percy: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #332, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#332highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2019

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#5591

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #332 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #332 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #332 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Percy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Percy in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	83	9 of 10	9
2010s	681	10 of 10	68
2020sbusiest	625	5 of 10	125

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 125 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Percy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #332 in England and Wales in 2024.

Percy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#332	133	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#366	112	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#353	120	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#341	131	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#347	129	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#347	128	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#399	107	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#439	96	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#486	83	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#485	81	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#597	59	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#709	46	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#962	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1401	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #332, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 133 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Per-Erik · #338, 21y
Percival · #814, 21y
Peregrine · #2320, 13y
Perez · #1892, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hania · #333, 30y
Jolie · #331, 29y
Malia · #331, 25y
Ziggy · #333, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ellie-Louise · #332, 27y
Arun · #331, 29y
Emma-Jane · #331, 21y
Farhan · #333, 29y

Percy was ranked #332 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Percy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Percy without appearing here.

Percy moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1401 and #4052.
Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1401 and #4052.
Morten Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1401 and #3385.
Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2023 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.

Moved the opposite way to Percy

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 while Aaron went from #31 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 while Alan went from #196 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 while Alex went from #46 to #171.

Moved the same way as Percy

Albie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 and Albie from #716 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 and Alfred from #174 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Percy went from #2901 to #332 and Archie from #120 to #10.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #332 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Percy

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Percy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Percy at a glance

Percy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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