Definition of "Percy"

Percy

/ˈpɝsi/

proper noun
1. An English surname from Old French.
  Quotations
  Hotspur. My name is Harry Percy.Prince. Why, then, I see / A very valiant rebel of that name. / I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, / To share with me in glory any more.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of Middle Ages and later usage.
  Quotations
  I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met.
  2008, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, Faber and Faber, pages 198 - 199
3. A place name:
  1. A commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
  2. A village in the Manche department, Normandy, France.
  3. A village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Mississippi, United States.
  5. A township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.