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Peggie

Girls' name

Variant of Peggy

Peggie has been given to 7,355 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1948, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Peggie, 2001

1 in 624,000

Peggie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Peggie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Peggy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Peggie means

Peggie is a variant of Peggy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Peggie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɛɡ.i/ for Peggie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Peggie → Peggy → Margaret. The family’s meaning is “pearl”, recorded in English with the source elements margarítēs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peggy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,355 girls were recorded with the name Peggie between 1886 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 258 in 1948; its best national rank was #466 in 1939.

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 Peggie?

Peggie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 624,000
6 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 300,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
432,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peggie 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 2001 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 432,315 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peggie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Peggies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peggie was born before 1944 — so the typical Peggie is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,471
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1940s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (2,115).

Is Peggie 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 1948 (258)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#466
1939

Spellings of Peggie

Peggie is not the most common spelling — Peggy is, with 66.8% against Peggie's 1.7%.

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 Peggie is used

Across 1910–2025, Peggie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 29,123 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 5,556
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 7,692
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 7,692
  5. 5Alabama1 in 8,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 10,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 14,286
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 25,000

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. Peggie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peggie around the world

Where Peggie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–1986
    #3,235
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1961–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Peggie 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
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Best rank ever
#466
1939
Peak year
1948
258 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
7,355
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Peggie

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

GeorgieVergieVirgieAggieReggieMargieMaggieAngiePeggiTangiePeggyPeggyePegeenVangieMadgieFergieMeggieArgiePeggePegElgiePeggyannJorgieAlgie

Names with a curve like Peggie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Peggie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GerryCarylDeloisCarrollGeorgeneMarilynnEarleneBeverleyMarvaMarylouMarilouEarnestine

Sibling names for Peggie

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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