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HelpRe: Percival vs Perseus
in reply to a message by Bex
I'd go for Percival. Mythologically, Perseus scores pretty high, but the South African poet Perseus Adams was actually named Peter: he was clearly going for the more exotic option! He doesn't write badly at all, but his taste in names is not quite mine - my son is also Peter and he's stayed that way.
Percy is fine as a full name. Percival and Perseus are both unlikely to be used in their full form. I had an uncle Percy, or so I thought; he died when I was a baby; and on researching family history, he was a Percival in the written records. I've also found a long-ago Springbok cricketer who was actually Rhodesian - in today's world, Protea and Zimbabwean! - born in 1920 and named Percy Neville Frank Mansell. Frank puzzles me rather. But for your purposes, I suppose you could see if Percival or Percy or Perseus sounds better with the baby's ln.
Percy is fine as a full name. Percival and Perseus are both unlikely to be used in their full form. I had an uncle Percy, or so I thought; he died when I was a baby; and on researching family history, he was a Percival in the written records. I've also found a long-ago Springbok cricketer who was actually Rhodesian - in today's world, Protea and Zimbabwean! - born in 1920 and named Percy Neville Frank Mansell. Frank puzzles me rather. But for your purposes, I suppose you could see if Percival or Percy or Perseus sounds better with the baby's ln.
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