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The percy Surname

percy Name Meaning and History

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Persius + the locative suffix -acum. The suggestion has also been made that it is a nickname from Old French perce(r) ‘to pierce or breach’ + haie ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’, referring either to a soldier remembered for his breach of a fortification, or in jest to a poacher who was in the habit of breaking into a private park.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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percy Family Facts

Distribution of percy Families in the US in 1920
Number of percy families
 53-104
 18-52		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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