Pinkey
Pinkey was last recorded in 1962, when 5 babies were given it; 580 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pinkey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pinkey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pinkey is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pinkey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,318, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1910, the peak
Pinkey peaked in 1910, when 17 girls were given it, #1,100 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | #7,318 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,929 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,798 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,733 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,525 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,764 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,503 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,410 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,025 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,150 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 8 | #4,151 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,807 | 5.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,314 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,612 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,445 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,433 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,952 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,493 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,772 | 6.1 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,889 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,485 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,677 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,837 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,241 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,134 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,100 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,520 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,223 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,312 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,939 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,080 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,922 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,113 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,299 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,615 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,983 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,402 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,990 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,358 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,111 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,337 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,100 | 42.9 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,922 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,419 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,783 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,090 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,395 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,348 | 32.7 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,195 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,891 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,046 | 46.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,788 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,038 | 46.4 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,149 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,549 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,279 | 34.2 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,077 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,623 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,307 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,313 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 10 | #891 | 56.1 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,131 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,249 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,166 | 37.6 |
| 1883 | 6 | #905 | 53.4 |
| 1880 | 5 | #918 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pinkey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 580 Americans recorded as Pinkey, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Pinkey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pinkey, and how old are they?
An estimated 114 Americans named Pinkey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 71 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 204 people named Pinkey (177 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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).
How common is the spelling Pinkey?
Pinkey is a less common spelling of Pinkie: SSA has recorded 580 Pinkey and 3,892 Pinkie since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,842 babies since 1880, Pinkey is the second most given (12% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pinkey
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 Pinkey and names like it
- Compare Pinkey and PinkieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sPinkey peaked in 1910.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pinkey since 1910.
- The top names of 1910The year the most babies were named Pinkey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pinkey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.