Popular Names
PERCY Name
| Name: | PERCY |
| Gender: | Male |
| Origin/Usage: | English, French |
| Meaning: | Pierces |
Percy Bysshe Shelley: "There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain."