Peg
- Last seen for girls in 1968 at #7,016
- Peak · girls
- 1946 · 32 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 841since 1913
Peg over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Peg has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 |
| 1962 | #2,312 | 27 |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 |
| 1959 | #1,820 | 37 |
| 1958 | #1,679 | 41 |
| 1957 | #1,641 | 43 |
| 1956 | #1,871 | 33 |
| 1955 | #1,978 | 29 |
| 1954 | #2,186 | 24 |
| 1953 | #2,071 | 25 |
| 1952 | #1,713 | 33 |
| 1951 | #2,474 | 17 |
| 1950 | #2,121 | 21 |
| 1949 | #1,736 | 30 |
| 1948 | #1,669 | 31 |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 |
| 1946 | #1,559 | 32 |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 |
| 1942 | #1,981 | 19 |
| 1941 | #1,696 | 22 |
| 1940 | #1,635 | 23 |
| 1939 | #1,638 | 22 |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 |
| 1937 | #1,845 | 18 |
| 1936 | #2,032 | 15 |
| 1935 | #2,095 | 15 |
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
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First appearance
1913
The first year at least five girls were named Peg! It came in at #2,827, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Peg is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Peg in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Peg
Momentum · girls
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1968
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1946 at #1,559 (32 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 47,555
- Highest: 1 in 47,555 girls born in 1957 were named Peg (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 328,078 girls born in 1968 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,559 in 1946, was only 1 in 49,103 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
- 36.0% of all girls named Peg (303) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 22 | #2,827 (1913) | #3,740 |
| 1920s | 39 | #3,137 (1929) | #4,149 |
| 1930s | 103 | #1,638 (1939) | #2,293 |
| 1940s | 237 | #1,559 (1946) | #1,833 |
| 1950s | 303 | #1,641 (1957) | #1,955 |
| 1960s | 137 | #2,097 (1960) | #4,022 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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