# Peach (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/peach/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | “sin” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 97 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 97 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 108, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch. * As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 11 | 9,591 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,394 |
| 2021 | 18 | 6,615 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,409 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,556 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,866 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,739 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 7 | 3,148 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2024 | 23 | 1,406 |
| 2025 | 32 | 1,051 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.