Peggy

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.

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Peggy, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Margaret
• Molly
• Dick
• Daisy
• Marjorie
• Margret
• Richard
• Nancy
• Sue
• Betty
• Megan
• Libby

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.

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.

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.

• 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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

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

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?

In the United States, the national register counted about 184 thousand people named Peggy, 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. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 1998), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Venezuela (asosab), among others.

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 the United States, Peggy is the 242nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

How do you pronounce Peggy?

A machine transcription gives /pɛɡi/ (IPA) for English.