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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