Peggy
Barely twenty women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick with you. An English short form of Margaret, from the Greek for "pearl".
Peggy Pronunciation
Peggy is pronounced PEG-gih (/ˈpɛggɨ/).
What Peggy means
Where Peggy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Peggy grew out of Margaret, and Margaret goes back to the Greek word margarites, meaning pearl. English speakers shortened Margaret to Meg and Meggy, then swapped the opening sound to get Peggy. It is a nickname that walked far enough from home to become a full name of its own.
The pearl sense is literal here. A child called Peggy was given the word for a small, round treasure pulled from the sea.
In English usage the name reads as warm and familiar. Peggy Guggenheim, the American collector, spent her fortune on modern art and made the name stick to a museum in Venice. That is one bearer among many, and she anchors the name to the twentieth century.
On a Polish register the spelling looks foreign, closer to Peggy Sue than to Małgorzata, though both trace to the same pearl. A teacher reading it aloud at an imieniny would reach for the English sound. Short and plain, it lands quickly. The meaning stays fixed under the surface: pearl, perła, the same treasure in two languages.
How many people are named Peggy
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Peggy. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10033 among female names.
Peggy as a middle name
Peggy is a first name for 20 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2844th, between Paresh (8) and Raim (8).
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#2842 Paraskiewia8
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#2843 Paresh8
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#2844 Peggy8
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#2845 Raim8
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#2846 Raissa8