Peggy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled פגי in FR France, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Peggy is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name274K records spelled Peggy9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Péggy, Pêggy, Pëggÿ, P͏e͏g͏g͏y͏

• Polish given name15K records spelled Peggy28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Pegi, Peggie, Пегги, Peggi, Пеги

• Greek given name7.9K records spelled Peggy6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Πέγκυ, Πεγκυ, Péggŷ, Πεγκι

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Peggy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Pet form of Margaret; see Peg. Variants: Peggie, Peggi.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Peggy är en engelsk smekform till → Margareta. (Det är egentligen en rimform till Meggie, variant av Maggie.) Också varianten Peg förekommer. I Sverige användes namnet Peggy tidigast i det engelskpåverkade Göteborgsområdet.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Forme anglo-saxonne de Marguerite; origine grecque, « éclat du soleil ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Diminutif anglais de Margaret, d’origine grecque (« perle »).

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Peggy Woodb. 1892USAmerican actress of stage, film and television (1892-1978)
• Peggy Guggenheimb. 1898USAmerican art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite (1898–1979)
• Peggy Ashcroftb. 1907GBBritish actress (1907-1991)
• Peggy Cassb. 1924USAmerican actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer (1924-1999)
• Peggy Ann Garnerb. 1932USAmerican actress (1932-1984)
• Peggy Liptonb. 1946USAmerican actress and singer (1946-2019)
• Peggy Flemingb. 1948USAmerican figure skater
• Peggy Marchb. 1948USAmerican singer
• Peggy Whitsonb. 1960USAmerican astronaut
• Peggy Goub. 1991KRSouth Korean DJ, music producer, singer and fashion designer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 792 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Peggy?

We estimate roughly 187 thousand people bear Peggy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Peggy have the most bearers?

We estimate about 184 thousand people bear Peggy in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled peggy.

How common is Peggy compared with other names?

In the United States, Peggy is the 238th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Peggy a male or female name?

Peggy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Peggy mean?

Recorded meaning: Pet form of Margaret; no dated cite given.