Peggie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PEG-ee
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Peggie is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “pearl”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Peggie mean?
Greek: spelling of Peggy; pet form of Margaret
“pearl”
A rhyming pet form of Margaret, from Meg or Maggie, much as Polly comes from Molly.
Meaning borrowed from Peggy. More on Wiktionary.
Is Peggie a girl's or a boy's name?
Peggie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Peggie in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 117% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Peggie, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 7 girls.
In 2025, 82 girls in the UK were given Peggie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #518, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Peggy 77
- Peggie 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Peggie in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
Names like Peggie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Bonnie, Dottie, Rosie, Lottie, Elsie, Effie, Billie, Frankie, Annie, Georgie, Nellie, Florence
Other spellings of Peggie
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Peggie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/peggie, updated 20 October 2026.