Pecos — boys' name

What the Data Says About Pecos

The Social Security Administration has registered 46 babies named Pecos between 1979 and 2021, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pecos currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 9 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pecos performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Pecos shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pecos in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pecos in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 46 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.