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Is Percy a boy or a girl? It sounds like a girl or a boys name

George "Percy" was a standard nickname for "Percival", which was traditionally a male name, harking back to an Arthurian knight and earlier.

The modern trend …more"Percy" was a standard nickname for "Percival", which was traditionally a male name, harking back to an Arthurian knight and earlier.

The modern trend to randomly appropriate male names for girls did not exist in the 1720s (which the Author's Note establishes as the period of the novel), nor did names ending in Y particularly sound like girls' names to people of the time.(less)

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