Peg — girls' name

What the Data Says About Peg

The Social Security Administration has registered 841 babies named Peg between 1913 and 1968, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Peg currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1968. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 43 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Peg performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Peg shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 79 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Peg in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Peg in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 841 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.