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Why is Peggy not more popular?

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Manumission · 23/01/2017 07:08

I was just reading about Peggy Ashcroft and it made me think.

It's the perfect meeting of the "old lady name" trend (Iris, Sylvia, Elsie, Maude etc) and what I think of as "smiley" names (Poppy, Molly, Ellie, Chloe etc)

So why am I not meeting any tiny Peggys?

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ScruffyTheJanitor · 23/01/2017 20:12

Pegging is not just good for tents you know Manumission
Nudge nudge Wink Wink
Say no more.

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Manumission · 23/01/2017 20:00

Well I learnt a new sex word anyway Smile

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Pipilangstrumpf · 23/01/2017 19:28

Too piggy and eggy imo. Not feminine or elegant at all.

Helspopje · 23/01/2017 14:20

Agree with pp
Goven advent of pegging in porn, being called peg/peggy would be an utter nightmare

Sophronia · 23/01/2017 14:18

It could be because it sounds a bit like 'piggy'. I do think it will increase in popularity though, it's just a bit behind the Victorian and Edwardian type names like Lily and Ivy as it's more of a 1920s/30s name, along with Vera, Jean, Audrey and Rita. They will have their time again and will probably be trendy in a few years time.

Cinderpi · 23/01/2017 11:58

I'd avoid it. I was a Meggie growing up (diminutive of Margaret which I hated). Fine to about age 13, then sounded really infantile so I shortened it to Meg - not so easy for a Peggy to do!

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 23/01/2017 10:08

Most names have an unpleasant association, somewhere along the line, I like Margaret (Meg), but Peggy is quite cute.

ScruffyTheJanitor · 23/01/2017 09:50

Reminds me of a sexual act.
Peggy:- The recipient in the act of Pegging
Pegger:- The giver in the act of Pegging

HoratioNightboy · 23/01/2017 09:47

I think it's an ugly sound, personally, and have always disliked it. But I feel that way about Margaret and all its derivatives. Megan is possibly the nicest, being softened by the -an ending, but it's still got an "egg" in it. Sad

JellyWitch · 23/01/2017 09:34

I love the name Margaret but only know one baby Maggie. Meg is my favourite diminutive, although Megan has remained popular.

I don't believe that Thatcher has the monopoly over a classic name that has been well loved through the generations.

TheLegendOfBeans · 23/01/2017 09:31

I really dislike Peggy for the same reasons as a PP; there's something evocative of bad teeth about it.

BUT the OP does make a salient point - why do we have an abundance of Rubys, Lilys, Roses, even Marnies and Ethels (looking at you Lily Allen) and they are all as bad as each other IMHO...yet for any future daughters I'd have I'd consider Marguerite and everyone I've told has recoiled in horror...weird.

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Manumission · 23/01/2017 09:18

First poster has a Peggy-cat. We might need photos to judge properly Smile

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BikeRunSki · 23/01/2017 09:16

Cat?

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Manumission · 23/01/2017 09:12

TWO of mine...

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Manumission · 23/01/2017 09:11

They'd been carrying over a day's leave for years

Grin

I just can't think of it as the same name. I always struggle with the Daisy/Margaret/Marguerite thing too. But then too of mine have names that were originally diminutives so I'm not very MN on that count.

I desperately want someone to use it for something Smile

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BikeRunSki · 23/01/2017 09:08

Margaret Thatcher may be dead, but her decimation of the north of England is not. I live in the Yorkshire Coalfields and work with many former miners - her funeral was a day of celebration here. They'd been carrying over a day's leave for years.

NormaSmuff · 23/01/2017 09:08

Another Aunt Peg here too, probably great aunt tbf

NormaSmuff · 23/01/2017 09:06

Mitchell for me
I wanted the name for my puppy, but was vetoed.

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Manumission · 23/01/2017 09:05

I can't imagine anyone calling Mrs T "Peggy". They wouldn't dare.

Milk you need a trigger warning on that Smile

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phoenixnix · 23/01/2017 09:01

I couldn't go near Margaret or any derivative due to Thatcher. I'm sure lots of people feel the same.

QuimReaper · 23/01/2017 08:57

I quite like Penny though.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 23/01/2017 08:56

Peggy

Why is Peggy not more popular?
QuimReaper · 23/01/2017 08:53

Mmm, another one here who can't put my finger on why it just isn't for me. I think it's that the sound "Peg" is just not very nice. Peggy Mitchell too, undoubtedly - the appeal of the Granny Chic names is surely that everyone's sort of heard of them and knows how to spell them but hasn't ever actually really met / known one, and PM sort of undoes that.

Loupee · 23/01/2017 08:52

We we would never use it as my maiden name was Peggy (spelt slightly differently tho) and I hated, the amount of teasing I got from it growing up, pegleg, Miss Piggy etc etc
I married the first guy I could with a relatively normal name Wink

Tweedledee3Tweedledum · 23/01/2017 08:51

Oh I like it, or I did, until I googled pegging. Thanks, pp. Grin

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