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Help[Opinions] Re: Percival
in reply to a message by HailCthulhu
My impression is that it started out as, if not pretentious, then certainly upper-class, and slid downwards until it became associated with middle-class and - horrors! - working-class people, at which point it retained its popularity for a while and then disappeared.
Perhaps now it's lost that identity and could be deemed pretentious rather than just old-fashioned. I don't know. Here in South Africa, a Percival-known-as-Percy was born in 1974 and played international rugby very well, but I'm not aware that his name was widely adopted or adopted at all during and just after his playing days.
I had a distant uncle Percival, or Percy, who was an electrician: working-class vibe!
I don't enjoy the -er- sound: names like Gertrude and Mervyn also put me off. But Percy is one of the better ones.
Perhaps now it's lost that identity and could be deemed pretentious rather than just old-fashioned. I don't know. Here in South Africa, a Percival-known-as-Percy was born in 1974 and played international rugby very well, but I'm not aware that his name was widely adopted or adopted at all during and just after his playing days.
I had a distant uncle Percival, or Percy, who was an electrician: working-class vibe!
I don't enjoy the -er- sound: names like Gertrude and Mervyn also put me off. But Percy is one of the better ones.
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