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How popular is “Peggye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Peggye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Peggye” 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 “Peggye” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Peggye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Peggye” 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
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 14 0.000006631 14 100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 100%
1939 14 0.000006354 14 100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 100%
1942 21 0.000007687 21 100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 100%
1948 12 0.000003476 12 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%

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