Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Peggy
/PEG · ee/
Meaning
“Pearl”
English diminutive of Margaret, from Greek margarites meaning 'pearl'.
Nicknames
peg
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Retro-cute, the quintessential 1940s–50s American nickname. Mad Men made it feel stylish again.
The cultural moment.
Occasionally chosen in the UK and US; rare but not unseen. Part of the vintage nicknames-as-given-names movement.