Percival Family History
Percival Name Meaning
from the personal name Perceval, first found as
the name of the hero of an epic poem by the 12th-century French poet
Crestien de Troyes, describing the quest for the holy grail. The
origin of the name is uncertain; it may be associated with the Gaulish
personal name Pritorix or it may be an alteration of the
Celtic name Peredur (see Priddy). It seems to have been
altered as the result of folk etymological association with Old French
perce(r) ‘to pierce or breach’ + val ‘valley’.Norman habitational name from either of the two places in Calvados
named Perceval.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Percival
Name Distribution of Percival Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Percival families
 582 - 1,161  195 - 581 |
 1 - 194  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Percival families
|
17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Percival Family Origin
Percival Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Percival Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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