Peg

Last seen for girls in 1968 at #7,016

Peak · girls
1946 · 32 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
841
since 1913

Peg over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Peg has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #1,559, 1946girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1968#7,0165
1967#5,4577
1966#5,8096
1965#4,20210
1964#3,00018
1963#3,63513
1962#2,31227
1961#2,67321
1960#2,09730
1959#1,82037
1958#1,67941
1957#1,64143
1956#1,87133
1955#1,97829
1954#2,18624
1953#2,07125
1952#1,71333
1951#2,47417
1950#2,12121
1949#1,73630
1948#1,66931
1947#1,89726
1946#1,55932
1945#1,87420
1944#2,02718
1943#2,25116
1942#1,98119
1941#1,69622
1940#1,63523
1939#1,63822
1938#1,94517
1937#1,84518
1936#2,03215
1935#2,09515
1934#2,74110
1933#3,7536
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1929#3,1379
1928#4,1956
1927#4,2866
1926#3,8737
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1924#4,4346
1923#4,9675
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1917#4,5945
1916#3,9196
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1914#3,6185
1913#2,8276
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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.

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
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s22#2,827 (1913)#3,740
1920s39#3,137 (1929)#4,149
1930s103#1,638 (1939)#2,293
1940s237#1,559 (1946)#1,833
1950s303#1,641 (1957)#1,955
1960s137#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.

Peg in 1957

girls
#1,641
43 births · 1 in 47,555 girls

Top girls' names in 1957

  1. #1Mary61,102
  2. #2Susan45,954
  3. #3Linda44,517
  4. #4Debra42,728
  5. #5Karen40,591
  6. #6Deborah40,096
  7. #7Cynthia39,340
  8. #8Patricia39,283
  9. #9Barbara29,692
  10. #10Donna28,042
  11. #1,641Peg43
More about 1957

girls

2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 47,555 of them was named Peg, which outranked 76.6% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Peg
  1. #1,628Rebbecca44
  2. #1,628Rebeca44
  3. #1,628Thalia44
  4. #1,641Peg43
  5. #1,641Bianca43
  6. #1,641Danelle43
  7. #1,641Delana43
  8. #1,652Brunilda42
  9. #1,652Camellia42
  10. #1,652Carlyn42

Tied with 10 names at #1,641; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. 2,944Tammi#3,696#752
  2. 1,310Tamela#2,151#841
  3. 1,298Tammie#1,662#364
  4. 993Tia#1,968#975
  5. 676Tamera#1,287#611
Fallers
  1. 423Corliss#878#1,301
  2. 399Glynis#977#1,376
  3. 367Merrie#977#1,344
  4. 303Taryn#935#1,238
  5. 291Glendora#963#1,254

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1957