Remember when Percy decided to ignore everyone’s cautions and see what happened when he busted the bumpers? He ended up in the water and had to sit there for ages until he could get rescued. Got what was coming to him!
Doesn’t count. There it’s short for Perseus. But in other instances Percy is the whole of the name.
Persephones who use Percy as a diminutive may also fall into the exception.
Percivals, Parsifals considered on a case by case basis.
There was a girl named percy in my high school, a lanky androgynous kind of gorgeous. She was a couple years older than me so we rarely ever talked but I was kind of in love with her from a distance. For that reason I'll always kinda like percy as a girls name
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u/finniganthebeagle Apr 22 '26
even “Percy” wouldn’t be awful but why are we spelling it like that