Peggy

Where Peggy comes from

Alteration of Maggie, from Margaret.
— Wiktionary's entry for Peggy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1907
    Peggy Ashcroft born
    British actress
  3. 1937
    Peak, #31
    6,378 babies named Peggy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1960
    Peggy Whitson born
    American astronaut
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #123.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Peggy Ashcroft · British actress, 1907–1991
  • Peggy Whitson · American astronaut, born 1960
  • Peggy Lipton · American actress and singer, 1946–2019
  • Peggy Guggenheim · American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite, 1898–1979
  • Peggy Fleming · American figure skater, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.