Peggy
The girl's name Peggy has been in the national records since 1880, with 293,563 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 172,000 Peggys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Peggy boys named Peggy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 293,563
- Estimated living today
- 172,000
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 42nd
- Rank in 2025
- 8,362nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 292,765 / 798
How old the living Peggys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 293,563 babies given the name since 1880, about 172,000 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 370 of them are children and 131,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Alteration of Maggie, from Margaret.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Peggys
- Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991)British actress
- Peggy Lee (1920–2002)American singer
- Peggy Whitson (born 1960)American astronaut
- Peggy Lipton (1946–2019)American actress and singer
- Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979)American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite
- Peggy Fleming (born 1948)American figure skater
- Peggy Wood (1892–1978)American actress of stage, film and television
- Peggy Ann Garner (1932–1984)American actress
People named Peggy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Peggy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Peggy is most concentrated in West Virginia (2.1×), Tennessee (2.1×), North Carolina (2.0×), Arkansas (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular girls’ names the year Peggy peaked:
Peggy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Peggy +1 spelling | 17,500 | 39th |
| England and Wales girls | Peggy | 1,342 | 367th |
| Norway girls | Peggy | 238 | 230th |
| France boys | Peggy | 60 | 946th |
| Ireland girls | Peggy | 37 | 628th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Peggy | 29 | 253rd |
| Scotland girls | Peggy | 29 | 560th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Peggy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Peggy | 2,502 | 2,837 |
| Finland girls | Peggy | 90 | 106 |
| the Netherlands boys | Peggy | — | 77 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Peggy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.