Peshy — girls' name
15 babies named Peshy in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
67% of everyone ever named Peshy was born in this single decade.
5 babies were named Peshy in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Peshy
The Social Security Administration has registered 15 babies named Peshy between 2012 and 2020, spanning 9 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Peshy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 5 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Peshy performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Peshy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Peshy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Peshy 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 15 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.
Peshy at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Peshy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2012
- Peak year (2012)
- 5
- Annual births at peak — across 9 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
15 total births across 9 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 5 births in a single year.
Peshy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 10 births that decade — 67% of Peshy's all-time total
Peshy decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Peshy's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 67% of all-time use.
Peshy by state
Where Peshy concentrates geographically — total births since 2012
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 66.7% |
10 of 15 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 66.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 66.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2012–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.