Why is Peggy not more popular?

[Manumission]

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?

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.

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

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

TWO of mine...

Cat?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

Well I learnt a new sex word anyway

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

It'll come back. It's nice.

Why oh why do people call their children the diminutive pet names for longer, far more versatile names?

Drives me bonkers. Are people really so ignorant?

If you like Peggy, FGS call your daughter Margaret and give her a choice of names when she's an adult. She can choose to stick with a childish diminutive or use the rather lovely Margaret.

Yes, tainted by Mrs Thatcher, but I have an aunt, and a grandmother both called Margaret. Elegant graceful women, like their name. Never Peggy!

Because they want to Cat. Are you so unimaginative?

I heard of a baby Lillibet the other day. Not everyone would plump for that but I quite like it.

I was named after a great aunt peggy. Just don't go there. It is awful. And Margaret is just so dull, dull, dull and uptight.
I don't use it.

'Why oh why do people call their children the diminutive pet names for longer, far more versatile names?

Drives me bonkers. Are people really so ignorant?'

Christ alive calm down love.

Peggy is awful. In my head Peggy is a mid-40s waitress in a greasy roadside diner in the US; full name Peggy-Sue. Peggy-Sue is married to a good ole' boy in a baseball cap, check shirt and wifebeater vest called Al

Absolutely hated the name Peggy until I taught the most adorable, little 3 year old. Now I think it's quite a cute little name. 'Spose it all comes down to the connotations of previous Peggys we've known.

Because it sounds ugly

I know a Peggy. I love it so cute