Meaning and history
Peggy is a medieval variant of Meggy, itself a diminutive of Margaret. The reason for the change in the initial consonant is unknown.
20062006: 33 births, rank #4,358
2007: 32 births, rank #4,567
2008: 27 births, rank #5,279
2009: 27 births, rank #5,226
2010: 18 births, rank #6,904
20112011: 25 births, rank #5,358
2012: 25 births, rank #5,398
2013: 17 births, rank #7,031
2014: 22 births, rank #5,797
2015: 13 births, rank #8,447
20162016: 19 births, rank #6,401
2017: 23 births, rank #5,517
2018: 23 births, rank #5,454
2019: 35 births, rank #4,072
2020: 20 births, rank #5,850
20212021: 18 births, rank #6,414
2022: 15 births, rank #7,281
2023: 24 births, rank #5,248
2024: 13 births, rank #7,967
20252025: 12 births, rank #8,362
Peggy moved from #808 to #870 for girls between 1988 and 1989. Its highest annual birth count came in 1958, with 10,071 births.