Persy Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Derbyshire 1
Hunts and Rutland 0
Lincolnshire 1
Staffordshire 5
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Persy Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Persy family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 1
Maltster 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Persy

Name Census Frequency
William Persy 13
James Persy 8
Mary Persy 6
Edward Persy 5
Elizabeth Persy 5
George Persy 5
Henry Persy 4
Jane Persy 4
Sarah Persy 4
Ellen Persy 3
Emma Persy 3
Hannah Persy 3
Joseph Persy 3
Robert Persy 3
Albert Persy 2
Amelia Persy 2
Ann Persy 2
Annie Persy 2
Charles Persy 2
Edmond Persy 2
Fanny Persy 2
Frederick Persy 2
Harriet Persy 2
John Persy 2
Louisa Persy 2

Persy Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Percy 80% 22,008
2 Pursey 67% 4,265
3 Pearcey 57% 3,880
4 Parsey 67% 1,339
5 Pearsey 71% 721
6 Persey 83% 533
7 Purcey 50% 519
8 Purssey 57% 272
9 Purcy 60% 167
10 Persy 100% 143
11 Poorsey 57% 105

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The surname Persy is the 10th most popular variant of Percy.

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