Peg
About Peg
Peg is a nostalgic turn-of-the-last-century nickname, sociable but slight. Like near-identical twin Peggy, Peg is in mothballs.
Pronounced PEG.
As of October 2026, Peg ranked #7861 in US births in 1968 SSA, peaked at #1579 in 1946.
Editor's take: The name Peg is a girl's name of English, Greek origin meaning "pearl".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Peg on lists
Famous Pegs
- Margaret "Peg" Linton Phillips
American actress
- Margaret "Peg" Woffington
Irish actress
- Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle
Anglo,Welsh actress
- Margaret Ann "Peg" Kehret
American children's author
- Margaret Frances “Peg” Lynch
American actress
Peg in pop culture
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
main character in play/film "Peg O' My Heart"
- Margaret "Peg" Wanker Bundy
character from "Married with Children"
- Peg Pete
character on Disney's "Goof Troop"
- Peg Dingle
character on British soap "Emmerdale"
- Peg
Declan's nickname for Peggy from "Mysterious Ways"
- "Peg + Cat
" TV series on PBS
- "Peg
" song by Steely Dan
- Peg
nickname for Peggy or Pegasus
Variations & nicknames
- PeigIrish