Percival

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Percival is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 93 births. Its best rank was 744th, in 1886.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 930.01% of boys
Peak year: 202493 births
Best rank: #744in 1886
Since 1880: 1,353people given the name

Babies named Percival, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,353 boys have been named Percival in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 93 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 2020s alone account for 22%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Percival
1880s	57
1890s	43
1900s	45
1910s	107
1920s	137
1930s	55
1940s	44
1950s	74
1960s	76
1970s	87
1980s	75
1990s	62
2000s	36
2010s	156
2020s	299

In 2024, its biggest year

Percival was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Percival

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.