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How popular is “Peggy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Peggy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Peggy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Peggy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Peggy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Peggy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Peggy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Peggy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 13 0.000064521 13 100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1886 15 0.000058751 15 100%
1887 17 0.000068717 17 100%
1888 14 0.000046749 14 100%
1889 13 0.000044991 13 100%
1890 23 0.00007631 23 100%
1891 16 0.000055813 16 100%
1892 25 0.000074767 25 100%
1893 34 0.000104544 34 100%
1894 33 0.000097434 33 100%
1895 46 0.000131047 46 100%
1896 45 0.00012588 45 100%
1897 47 0.000135463 47 100%
1898 58 0.000152049 58 100%
1899 51 0.000150339 51 100%
1900 77 0.000171013 77 100%
1901 64 0.000185072 64 100%
1902 82 0.000212033 82 100%
1903 93 0.000243966 93 100%
1904 111 0.000275103 111 100%
1905 106 0.000250046 106 100%
1906 140 0.000326758 140 100%
1907 115 0.000247105 115 100%
1908 150 0.000306969 150 100%
1909 162 0.000316887 162 100%
1910 204 0.000345347 204 100%
1911 192 0.000298008 192 100%
1912 251 0.000254033 251 100%
1913 276 0.000242721 276 100%
1914 373 0.000263354 373 100%
1915 423 0.000230842 423 100%
1916 554 0.000286391 554 100%
1917 580 0.000289025 580 100%
1918 735 0.000338536 735 100%
1919 735 0.000348301 735 100%
1920 875 0.000386716 875 100%
1921 1066 0.000456628 1066 100%
1922 1304 0.000569642 1304 100%
1923 1592 0.000691428 1592 100%
1924 2081 0.000873779 2074 7 99%
1925 2327 0.000997299 2321 6 99%
1926 2629 0.001145082 2621 8 99%
1927 2867 0.001236118 2857 10 99%
1928 3391 0.00149982 3382 9 99%
1929 3796 0.001731625 3780 16 99%
1930 4098 0.001843216 4084 14 99%
1931 5098 0.002422557 5077 21 99%
1932 5461 0.002586569 5445 16 99%
1933 5562 0.002781769 5534 28 99%
1934 6043 0.002909743 6027 16 99%
1935 5297 0.002534571 5269 28 99%
1936 6102 0.002937074 6068 34 99%
1937 6406 0.003006566 6378 28 99%
1938 6376 0.002881712 6343 33 99%
1939 6078 0.002758412 6050 28 99%
1940 6142 0.002667321 6128 14 100%
1941 6589 0.002704372 6560 29 99%
1942 6601 0.00241634 6579 22 99%
1943 6536 0.002315629 6512 24 99%
1944 6031 0.002241942 6019 12 100%
1945 5849 0.002204749 5839 10 100%
1946 7418 0.00232153 7400 18 100%
1947 8900 0.002470629 8877 23 99%
1948 9107 0.002637785 9089 18 100%
1949 9133 0.002620828 9118 15 100%
1950 8546 0.002439374 8532 14 100%
1951 9223 0.002503706 9208 15 100%
1952 9012 0.002372825 8990 22 100%
1953 8779 0.002278103 8762 17 100%
1954 8468 0.00212726 8455 13 100%
1955 7998 0.00199199 7984 14 100%
1956 7513 0.0018222 7493 20 99%
1957 7407 0.001762672 7384 23 99%
1958 10084 0.002439341 10070 14 100%
1959 7433 0.001787642 7416 17 100%
1960 6441 0.001550623 6428 13 100%
1961 5583 0.001347802 5568 15 99%
1962 4916 0.001218227 4899 17 99%
1963 4116 0.001039867 4104 12 99%
1964 3855 0.000991613 3848 7 100%
1965 3113 0.000858652 3102 11 99%
1966 2655 0.000763885 2647 8 99%
1967 2280 0.000671596 2267 13 99%
1968 2119 0.000627218 2113 6 99%
1969 2068 0.000595053 2059 9 99%
1970 1912 0.000530152 1900 12 99%
1971 1699 0.000494995 1690 9 99%
1972 1344 0.000427618 1344 100%
1973 1139 0.000377541 1139 100%
1974 942 0.000309869 942 100%
1975 895 0.000296417 895 100%
1976 764 0.000251788 759 5 99%
1977 720 0.000226665 715 5 99%
1978 613 0.00019314 613 100%
1979 518 0.000155696 518 100%
1980 488 0.000141675 488 100%
1981 437 0.000126323 437 100%
1982 367 0.000104619 367 100%
1983 285 0.000082291 285 100%
1984 328 0.000094016 328 100%
1985 250 0.000070045 250 100%
1986 256 0.000071969 256 100%
1987 233 0.000064621 233 100%
1988 227 0.000061434 227 100%
1989 213 0.000055405 213 100%
1990 181 0.000045794 181 100%
1991 146 0.000037481 146 100%
1992 125 0.000032541 125 100%
1993 114 0.000030236 114 100%
1994 98 0.000026361 98 100%
1995 90 0.000024576 90 100%
1996 66 0.000018096 66 100%
1997 77 0.000021237 77 100%
1998 55 0.000014953 55 100%
1999 51 0.000013807 51 100%
2000 56 0.000014815 56 100%
2001 42 0.00001122 42 100%
2002 33 0.000008828 33 100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 100%
2005 34 0.000008843 34 100%
2006 32 0.000008089 32 100%
2007 32 0.000008005 32 100%
2008 27 0.000006869 27 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 18 100%
2011 25 0.000006835 25 100%
2012 25 0.000006836 25 100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 100%
2017 23 0.000006431 23 100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 100%
2019 35 0.000010084 35 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 100%
2021 18 0.000005313 18 100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 100%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 100%

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