Peggy

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Pet form of Margaret; no dated cite given

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Peggy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 993(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 1K
  • CNChina≈1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200,000 people, est.

#592 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
542 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 993 (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PeggyLatin(measured from records)
פגיHebrew(measured from records)
페기Hangul(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Pet form of Margaret; no dated cite given.

Sources 1

  • Welsh Surnames

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peggy 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 Peggy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈1,200,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Peggy45
US United States#242183,6791 in 1.8K184KPeggy542
GB United Kingdom#328≈39,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K4Peggy183
DE Germany#434≈30,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Peggy177
IT Italy#414≈28,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Peggy39
CA Canada#255≈26,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K1Peggy212
ZM Zambia#331≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Peggy29
SG Singapore#108≈6,200 est.≈1 in 1K—Peggy85
IE Ireland#153≈5,200 est.≈1 in 993—Peggy55

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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)

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 name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Péggy, Pêggy, P͏e͏g͏g͏y͏, Pëggÿ

  • Polish given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Peggie, Pegi, Пегги, Peggi, Пеги

  • Greek given name6 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(measured from records)

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 nameA concise dictionary of first names

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

    as a wordkaikki.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 nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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

    as a nameLe 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Peggy Wood, b. 1892Peggy Guggenheim, b. 1898Peggy Ashcroft, b. 1907Peggy Cass, b. 1924Peggy Ann Garner, b. 1932Peggy Lipton, b. 1946Peggy Fleming, b. 1948Peggy March, b. 1948Peggy Whitson, b. 1960Peggy Gou, b. 1991
  • 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(measured from records)

Attested in 72 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Peggy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020184K#302
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020145#302
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202512—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20217—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19775—
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)20254#334
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)20244#638
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20211#2,272
GB United KingdomNISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present)2023——

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What are other forms of the name Peggy?
In the etymology graph, Rita, Margarita and Mae are forms of the same name in other languages; Peg is a recorded short or pet form.
What does the name Peggy mean, and where does it come from?
Pet form of Margaret; no dated cite given. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
In which country does Peggy have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Peggy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peggy.
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.
How common is the name Peggy?
In the United States, the national register counted 183,679 people named Peggy in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Peggy compared with other names?
In Singapore, Peggy is the 108th most common given name of 52,448 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, “Peggy” — the 108th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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