Pink
Pink was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,127 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pink by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pink?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,508, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1881, the peak
Pink peaked in 1881, when 35 babies were given it (29 boys, #304 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #4,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,128 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,959 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 9 | #2,746 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,521 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,830 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,441 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,113 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,703 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,129 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,252 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,029 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 11 | #940 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,190 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 11 | #851 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 12 | #744 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 9 | #904 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 11 | #751 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 11 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 13 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 12 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 22 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1899 | 11 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 19 | #483 | 0.15 |
| 1897 | 19 | #453 | 0.17 |
| 1896 | 13 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 15 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 16 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 13 | #566 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 14 | #567 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 12 | #554 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 15 | #505 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 18 | #440 | 0.16 |
| 1888 | 17 | #478 | 0.14 |
| 1887 | 17 | #419 | 0.17 |
| 1886 | 22 | #377 | 0.20 |
| 1885 | 25 | #353 | 0.23 |
| 1884 | 20 | #411 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 17 | #444 | 0.16 |
| 1882 | 28 | #328 | 0.25 |
| 1881 | 29 | #304 | 0.29 |
| 1880 | 30 | #310 | 0.27 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pink a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,127 Americans recorded as Pink, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Pink: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pink, and how old are they?
An estimated 90 Americans named Pink and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Pink (234 women and girls, 154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pink
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pink and names like it
- Compare Pink and GreenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sPink peaked in 1881.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pink since 1910.
- The top names of 1881The year the most babies were named Pink.
- Names starting with PMost given first.