Percival (given name)

Percival
	How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Sanct Grael by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gender	Male
Language(s)	English
Origin
Meaning	Pierce the valley
Other names
Related names	Parsifal, Percy, Peredur

Percival, also spelled Perceval, is a masculine given name derived from the Celtic name Peredur and likely influenced by the Old French percer, meaning pierce and val, meaning valley. The name was likely also influenced by the name Percy. Sir Percival was one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian romance.^[1]

Men

Percival Alger (born 1964), Filipino fencer
Percival Allen (1917-2008), British geologist
Percival Appleby (1894-1968), Canadian World War I flying ace
Robert Perceval Armitage (1906-1990), British colonial administrator
Percival Arnott (1889–1950), Australian cricketer
Percival Bailey (1892–1973), American neuropathologist, neurosurgeon, and psychiatrist
Percival Baker (1867–1921), Canadian farmer, church minister, and politician
Percival G. Baldwin 1880–1936), Canadian-born American businessman and politician
Percival Barnett (1889–1966), English cricketer
Percival "Percy" Barton (1893–1961), English footballer
Percival Norman "Percy" Barton (1888–1912), Australian footballer
Percival P. Baxter (1876–1969), American politician and philanthropist
Percival Bazeley (1909–1991), Australian scientist
Percival "Percy" Beake (1917–2016), British RAF World War II fighter pilot
Percival Beale (1906–1981), British Chief Cashier of the Bank of England
Percival "Percy" Benbough (1884–1942), American politician
Percival "Percy" Best (1873–1943), Australian politician
Percival Bonney (1842–1906), American judge
Percival Brinton (1873–1958), English cricketer
Percival Bromfield (1886–1947), English international table tennis player
Percival "Percy" Brookfield (1875–1921), Australian politician and militant trade unionist
Percival Brown (1901–1962), unionist politician from Northern Ireland
Percival Brundage (1892–1979), American accountant and government official
Percival Chubb (1860–1959), British socialist who proposed the official Flag of St. Louis
Percival W. Clement (1846–1927), American politician
Percival Coles (1865–1920), English sportsman and sporting administrator
Percival Corbett (1900–1944), English cricketer
Percival David (1892–1964), British financier, scholar, and collector of Chinese ceramics
Percival Davson (1877–1959), British fencer and tennis player
Percival "Percy" Deane (1890–1946), Australian public servant
Percival Drayton (1812–1865), United States Navy officer
Percival Everett (born 1956), American writer and academic
Percival Ewens (1882–1961), British cricketer
Percival Farquhar (1865–1953), American investor and financier
Percival "Percy" Fawcett (1867-disappeared 1925), British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America
Percival Frost (1817–1898), English mathematician
Percival Fynn (1872–1940), Rhodesian diplomat and politician
Perceval Gaillard (born 1983), French politician
Percival Gale (1865–1940), English cricketer
Percival Gibson (1893–1970), Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1955 to 1967
Percival Goodman (1904–1989), American urban theorist and architect
Percival Gordon (1884–1975), Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal
Percival Gourgaud (1881–1958), Australian senior public servant
Percival "Percy" Gratwick (1902–1942), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931), Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and folklorist
Percival Gray (1889–1944), Australian naval officer
William Percival "Percy" Grieve (1915–1998), British politician
Percival Griffiths (1899–1992), British businessman who worked for the Indian Civil Service
John Percival Gülich (1864–1898), British illustrator, engraver, and artist
Percival Gunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer and diplomat
Percival Hall (1872–1953), American president of Gallaudet University
Percival Hart (1569–1642), English politician
Percival Hart (1666–1738), English politician
Percival Hartley (1881–1957), English immunologist
Percival Horton-Smith Hartley (1867–1952), English physician and authority on tuberculosis
William Percival "Percy" Harvin III (born 1988), American former professional football player
Percival Healing (1878–1915), English cricketer
Percival "Percy" Heather (1882–1956), Australian cricketer
Percival "Percy" Heggaton (1869–1948), Australian politician
Percival Hubbard (1905–1981), South African cricketer
Edward Percival Whitley "Percy" Hughes (1868–?), Welsh footballer
Percival Hussey (1869–1944), Australian sportsman
Percival Inchbold (1884–1953), Australian politician
Percival James (1883–1958), New Zealand clergyman
John Percival Jones (1829–1912), American politician
Percival Kemp (1888–1974), English cricketer
Percival King (1835–1910), English cricketer
Percival "Percy" Knowles (born 1930), Bahamian former sailor and Olympian
Percival Lancaster (1880–1937), British civil engineer and writer of adventure fiction for boys
Percival Leigh (1813–1889), English satirist and comic writer
Percival Levett (1560–1625), English merchant and innkeeper
Percival "Percy" Lindo (1877–1946), Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist, and legislator
Percival "Percy" Lindsay (1870–1952), Australian landscape painter, illustrator, and cartoonist
Percival Lloyd (1872–1915), American architect
Percival Lowell (1855–1916), American astronomer
Percival Mabasa, known professionally as Percy Lapid (1959–2022), Filipino journalist, radio broadcaster, and murder victim
Percival Mackey (1894–1950), British pianist, composer, and bandleader
Frederick Percival Mackie (1875–1944), English physician
Percival Marling (1861–1936), English British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient
Percival Clarence "Clarrie" Millar (1925–2017), Australian politician
Percival "Percy" Mills (1896–1971), British weightlifter
Percival "Percy" Molson (1880–1917), Canadian star athlete and soldier
Percival "Percy" Myers (1887–1967), British political activist
Arthur Percival "A.P." Newton (1873–1942), British historian and academic
Percival Noronha (1923–2019), Indian historian, heritage conservationist, and bureaucrat
Percival "Percy" O'Driscoll (born 1934), Canadian Anglican bishop
Percival "Percy" Oliver (1919–2011), Australian backstroke swimmer and Olympian
Percival Partridge (1879–1964), English cricketer and solicitor
Percival "Perce" Pearce (1899–1955), American producer, director, and writer
Edward Percival "Percy" Peter (1902–1986), English competitive swimmer and water polo player and Olympian
Percival Pickering (1810–1876), English cricketer and lawyer
Pércival Piggott (born 1966), Panamanian former professional footballer
Percival Pollard (1869–1911), American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer
Percival "Percy" Pollard (1883–1948), Australian politician
Percival C. Pope (1841–1922), American officer and United States Marine Corps Brevet Medal recipient
John Percival Postgate (1853–1926), English classicist and academic
Percivall Pott (1714–1788), English surgeon
Henry Percivall Pott (1908–1964), British farmer, company director, and politician
Percival Potter (1906–1975), Australian politician
Percival Leroy "P.L." Prattis (1895–1980), American journalist
Percival Puggina (born 1944), Brazilian politician, architect writer, and journalist
Percival "Percy" Quirke (1898–1972), Australian politician
Percival Savage (1894–1976), Australian soldier, farmer, and agriculture administrator
Percival Serle (1871–1951), Australian biographer and bibliographer
Percival Albert "Peter" Sheppard (1907–1977), British meteorologist
Percival Siebold (1917–1983), British scouting administrator
Percival Smith (1898–1965), British Archdeacon of Lynn
Percival "Percy" Sonn (1949–2007), South African lawyer and cricket administrator
Percival Spear (1901–1982), British historian of South Asia
Percival Green Spencer (1864–1913), British pioneering balloonist and parachutist
Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering (1858-1920), British chemist and horticulturist
Percival Hopkins Spencer (1897–1995), American inventor, aviation pioneer, test pilot, and businessman
Percival Spencer (born 1975), former Jamaican sprinter
Percival Stephenson (1888–1962), Australian Anglican bishop
Percival Stockdale (1736–1811), English poet, writer, and reformer
Percival "Percy" Stow (1876–1919), British director of short films
Percival Symonds (1893-1960), American educational psychologist
Percival Thirlwall, English standard bearer for King Richard III during the Battle of Bosworth Field
Percival Tomlinson (born 1959), Jamaican cricketer
Eric Percival "Percy" Trewern (1895–1959), Australian architect
Percival "Percy" Trompf (1902–1964), Australian commercial artist
Percival Turnbull (1862–1937), Australian born New Zealand cricketer
Percival Turnbull (1953–2016), British archaeologist
Percival "Van" Vanthoff (1894–1967), Australian senior public servant
Percival Wallace (1891–1959), Australian cricketer
Percival Waterfield (1888–1965), English civil servant
Percival Watson (1881–1959), English Congregationalist who served in Australia
Percival "Perc" Westmore (1904–1970), American makeup artist
Percival Whitton (1892–1974), English professional footballer
Percival Wilde (1887–1953), American author and playwright
Hugh Percy Wilkins, born Hugh Percival Wilkins (1896–1960), Welsh-born engineer and amateur astronomer
Percival Wilkinson (1848-c. 1891), English rugby player
Percival Willoughby (died 1634), English land owner, businessman, and entrepreneur
Percival Winterbotham (1883–1925), English cricketer
Percival Christopher "P.C." Wren (1875–1941), English writer of adventure fiction
Walter Perceval Yetts (1878–1957), British surgeon and sinologist

Notes

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 217–18. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

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[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 217–18. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

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