Given name
Pegah
“dawn”
Pegah is a feminine given name from Persian, meaning “dawn.”
Original Persianپگاه
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pegah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 0 boys · 75 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 543 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pegah’s family of names
In English usage, Pegah has a related form in PEGGAH. In English usage, Pegah was borrowed from the Persian form پگاه.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pegah
- Pegah FerydoniGerman-Iranian actressborn 1983
- Pegah AhangaraniIranian actressborn 1984
- Pegah AhmadiIranian poet, scholar, literary critic and poetry translatorborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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