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Pegah

Girls' name

Dawn

Pegah has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Pegah, 1996

1 in 729,000

Pegah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pegah: meaning, origin, and history

Dawn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pegah means

Pegah means “dawn”, associated with pagâh.

Origin, language, and formation

Pegah is used in English.

Pegah comes through Persian پگاه.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include پگاه.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Pegah between 1980 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1992; its best national rank was #7,920 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pegah?

Pegah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pegah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pegah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pegahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pegah was born before 1989 — so the typical Pegah is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
61.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
75
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Pegah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (10)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,920
1980

Spellings of Pegah

Pegah is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 42.1% against Pegah's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pegah is used

Across 1910–2025, Pegah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pegah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pegah around the world

Where Pegah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pegah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,920
1980
Peak year
1992
10 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pegah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PeggePegiPegeenPeganPeggyePeggiPeggysuePeggyannPegPeggyjoPeggyannePeggyleePeggieSiddeegahPeggy

Sibling names for Pegah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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