Peony
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/piːəni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Peony is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
167 people, 2020
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Peony, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Peony 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 167 | 1 in 2M | 167 | Peony | 8 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Peony | 16 |
| AU Australia | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | listed | — | — |
167 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the id-github-names register. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 167 | #42,763 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Peony?
- A machine transcription gives /piːəni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Peony a male or female name?
- Peony 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 are other forms of the name Peony?
- In the etymology graph, Paeony is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Peony have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 167 people named Peony, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peony.
- Where is Peony most common?
- Peony is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Peony?
- In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Peony in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/peonyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Peony”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.