Pecola
Pecola is a girl's name that peaked in 1920, when it was the 1,550th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1987. About 220 Pecolas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Pecola
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 788
- Estimated living today
- 220
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,550th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1900
How old the living Pecolas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 788 babies given the name since 1900, about 220 are alive — 27 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Pecola is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pecola is most concentrated in Georgia (21.6×), Alabama (16.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Pecola peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.