My name is Peggy and the name is English. It is a diminutive of the name Margaret. The medieval variant is Meggie. No one knows for sure how the change went from Meggie to Peggy. The Greek meaning of the name Peggy is pearl. There are only 1 or fewer people with that name in the United States. My family already knew that I was unique but they did not realize that there was less than one Peggy Wellmon.
My mama named me after a lady that she worked with while she was pregnant. She liked this woman very much; the woman was very kind to my mama. My mama was new to the area and this lady watched out for her; so my mama named me after her.
Some names that I have been called during my life are kind of funny; I have been referred to as Peg or Peg Leg when someone wanted to make a rhyme. In school many of the people I knew referred to me as Peggy Sue, thanks to the song by Buddy Holly. When I worked one of the men that I worked with referred to me as Curly Sue from some kind of movie that he had seen. There has only been one name that I have been called that I have chosen not to keep and that would be Piggy. For years people would ask me, “where is Kermit.”
While I may have wanted other names in the past, I am happy with who I am and the name that has been given to me by my parents. I am happy knowing that there is only 1 or fewer of me in the United States.
