Péguy

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Péguy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Costa Rica (measured from records)

1 people

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peguy in US United States, CM Cameroon, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.

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

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Péguy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Péguy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CR Costa Rica—11 in 5.1M1——
US United States————Peguy57
CM Cameroon#852———Peguy9
GB United Kingdom————Peguy9
JM Jamaica————Peguy1
CD Congo - Kinshasa———1Peguy3

1 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Péguy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Peguy

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Пеги, Pegi, Peguy

4 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Charles Péguyb. 1873FRFrench poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Péguy a male or female name?
Péguy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Péguy have the most bearers?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 1 people named Péguy, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Péguy most common?
Péguy is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Péguy?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Péguy, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
How common is Péguy compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Péguy is the 852nd most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Péguy” — the 852nd most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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