Peg
Recorded 1913–1968 · United States
Peg was most popular in 1957, when 43 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,707 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 841 people named Peg.
Peg over time
How old is the name Peg?
Peg first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1913, which makes it about 112 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 46 of the 113 years since. It was last recorded in 1968.
How many people are named Peg?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 841 American births named Peg between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 546 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Peg in 2025?
Peg was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Peg a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Peg is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 841 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Peg?
Roughly 546 Americans named Peg are alive today — 65% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 67 and 79. That is a narrow band: Peg arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Peg is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org