First name origin & meaning: Old French: Pierce the veil First name variations: Perceval, Percheval, Parsifal, Parsefal, Perce, Percy, Perci Last name origins & meanings:
- English: 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 Pritorīx 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’.
- English: Norman habitational name from either of the two places in Calvados
named Perceval.
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