Peggie
Peggie was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 7,355 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,620 Americans named Peggie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 68 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Peggie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Peggie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,864, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
258 babies in 1948, the peak
Peggie peaked in 1948, when 258 girls were given it, #510 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,797 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,672 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | #9,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,448 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,714 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,089 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,126 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,385 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,386 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,744 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,710 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,631 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,474 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,322 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 102 | #1,067 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 133 | #906 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 188 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 117 | #954 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 161 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 154 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 174 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 176 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 195 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 198 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 182 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 245 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 258 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1947 | 239 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1946 | 194 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 182 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1944 | 191 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1943 | 187 | #554 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 196 | #531 | 0.15 |
| 1941 | 223 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1940 | 200 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 206 | #466 | 0.19 |
| 1938 | 181 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1937 | 177 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1936 | 169 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1935 | 162 | #500 | 0.15 |
| 1934 | 178 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 165 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1932 | 138 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 148 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 124 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 134 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1928 | 105 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 73 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 81 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 80 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 66 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 48 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 58 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 46 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,050 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,552 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,405 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,653 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Peggie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Peggie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Peggie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Peggie, and how old are they?
3,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 49% of the 7,355 Americans ever recorded as Peggie. The median Peggie alive today is 75 years old; half are between 68 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 3,084 people named Peggie (3,080 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,452 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 983 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 331 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 69 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Peggie born?
The states with the most babies named Peggie are North Carolina, Texas and Georgia, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 826 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Texas | 531 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 456 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 445 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 406 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Alabama | 357 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| South Carolina | 310 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| California | 202 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 159 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 149 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Peggie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Peggie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Peggie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Peggie?
Peggie is a less common spelling of Peggy: SSA has recorded 7,355 Peggie and 293,563 Peggy since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 302,341 babies since 1880, Peggie is the second most given (2.4% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Peggie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Peggie and names like it
- Compare Peggie and PeggyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPeggie peaked in 1948.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Peggie since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Peggie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Peggie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.