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Girl · Greek, through English pet forms
Peggy
Say it: PEG-ee
Meaning
Pet form of Margaret, through Meg and Maggie; Margaret is from Greek 'pearl'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A common pet name of the 18th century, popular again as a given name in the 1920s to 1940s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1930s
In the United States
- 293,470 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1937, about 1 in 167 girls
- 20 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Peggy Shippen, wife of Benedict Arnold
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.