Peggy — #7940 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Peggy

The Social Security Administration has registered 292,751 babies named Peggy between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Peggy currently holds the #7940 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 10,070 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Peggy performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 84,294 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Peggy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 20,797 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Peggy in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Peggy 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 292,751 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.