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Peggy name image The name Peggy is a diminutive form of Margaret.  The table below indicates the number of times the name Peggy has been given to baby girls in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Peggy
Use of the Name Peggy
for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
291,14191,1663,2550000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Peggy has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Peggy last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1990, the last year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Peggy
 Used as a Girl NameUsed as a Boy Name
YearRankCountRankCount
188048713  
1881    
18828816  
18839016  
18847809  
188568811  
188659815  
188755517  
188871614  
188975113  
189055723  
189168916  
189256125  
189346134  
189450233  
189541946  
189643345  
189743047  
189840858  
189941151  
190038078  
190137364  
190235382  
190332193  
1904307111  
1905328106  
1906280141  
1907323115  
1908289150  
1909280162  
1910272204  
1911281192  
1912289252  
1913285274  
1914269373  
1915285425  
1916258554  
1917256581  
1918234736  
1919234735  
1920218875  
19211951,064  
19221721,302  
19231551,596  
19241332,078  
19251172,321  
19261042,610  
1927942,868  
1928763,379  
1929703,772  
1930674,072  
1931425,064  
1932395,456  
1933365,529  
1934366,024  
1935365,262  
1936356,058  
1937316,376  
1938356,341  
1939346,047  
1940376,132  
1941396,550  
1942426,588  
1943416,495  
1944456,016  
1945455,840  
1946437,389  
1947428,853  
1948389,085  
1949389,118  
1950418,510  
1951409,198  
1952438,993  
1953448,762  
1954488,442  
1955517,980  
1956637,489  
1957627,374  
19584210,076  
1959577,402  
1960696,436  
1961885,568  
1962934,897  
19631054,106  
19641063,849  
19651233,109  
19661392,652  
19671512,263  
19681552,112  
19691582,062  
19701741,901  
19711821,696  
19722071,346  
19732201,148  
1974270942  
1975267898  
1976302761  
1977329715  
1978351611  
1979413518  
1980441484  
1981484433  
1982531367  
1983615284  
1984565327  
1985699250  
1986705255  
1987770233  
1988807228  
1989873212  
1990998182  
Totals:  291,141 0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Peggy as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a boy's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Peggy appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 110 times during the last 125 years.

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