Entry № 8056 · English origin

Peggy Peggy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PEG-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pearl (iconic Peggy Whitson NASA first female ISS commander)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "pearl (iconic peggy whitson nasa first female iss commander)".

Peggy is the traditional English diminutive of Margaret — from the Greek margaritēs (pearl). Princess Peggy — English-American heritage naming.

and American science + art.

Pearl (English diminutive).

The name in its native script.

Peggy
Transliteration
Peggy
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɛɡ.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Peggy stands.

Peggy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Peggys before her.

Real people
Peggy Whitson
Iconic NASA first female ISS commander (2x) + 675-day record.
born 1960
Peggy Guggenheim
Iconic American art collector + Venice museum founder.
1898 – 1979
Peggy Lee
Iconic American jazz singer + Grammy Lifetime.
1920 – 2002
In fiction
Peggy
English diminutive of Margaret.

Names connected to Peggy.

The number behind Peggy.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Peggy reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.