Peggy
Peggy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 31st, in 1937.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195810,070 births
- Best rank
- #31in 1937
- Since 1880
- 292,751people given the name
The story in the numbers
292,751 girls have been named Peggy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 10,070 births — 0.50% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 10,070 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 29%. It has spent 109 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Peggy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 104 | |
| 1890s | 378 | |
| 1900s | 1,100 | |
| 1910s | 4,323 | |
| 1920s | 21,872 | |
| 1930s | 56,275 | |
| 1940s | 72,121 | |
| 1950s | 84,294 | |
| 1960s | 37,035 | |
| 1970s | 10,515 | |
| 1980s | 3,084 | |
| 1990s | 1,003 | |
| 2000s | 337 | |
| 2010s | 220 | |
| 2020s | 90 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Peggy was the 42nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Peggy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beverlypeak 1953
- Deloispeak 1948
- Delorsepeak 1958
- Clarethapeak 1948
- Joannepeak 1947
- Barbarapeak 1947
- Delorisepeak 1948
- Meritapeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.