Pinkie
Pinkie was last recorded in 1992, when 7 babies were given it; 3,892 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pinkie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pinkie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,362, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
94 babies in 1920, the peak
Pinkie peaked in 1920, when 94 girls were given it, #749 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 7 | #11,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,914 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,213 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,085 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,238 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,589 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,513 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,902 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,904 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,700 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,412 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,306 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 47 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 52 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 51 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 49 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 51 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 58 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 71 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 63 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 68 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 80 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 78 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 69 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 72 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 94 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 72 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 79 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 87 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 83 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 73 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 54 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 53 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 64 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 58 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 64 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 40 | #620 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 49 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1907 | 42 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 44 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 58 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1904 | 51 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1903 | 46 | #476 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 59 | #402 | 0.22 |
| 1901 | 42 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1900 | 57 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 35 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 44 | #471 | 0.17 |
| 1897 | 42 | #457 | 0.18 |
| 1896 | 40 | #461 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 40 | #462 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 37 | #462 | 0.17 |
| 1893 | 55 | #366 | 0.26 |
| 1892 | 46 | #394 | 0.22 |
| 1891 | 32 | #453 | 0.17 |
| 1890 | 37 | #422 | 0.19 |
| 1889 | 27 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 39 | #390 | 0.22 |
| 1887 | 30 | #401 | 0.21 |
| 1886 | 25 | #437 | 0.17 |
| 1885 | 19 | #497 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 25 | #407 | 0.19 |
| 1883 | 17 | #478 | 0.15 |
| 1882 | 23 | #375 | 0.21 |
| 1881 | 17 | #414 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 21 | #364 | 0.23 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pinkie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pinkie has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 100 years of records.
Girls and boys named Pinkie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pinkie, and how old are they?
An estimated 746 Americans named Pinkie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 66 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 771 people named Pinkie (748 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 978 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Pinkie born?
The states with the most babies named Pinkie are Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 496 | not ranked | 6.4× |
| Georgia | 382 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Mississippi | 356 | not ranked | 6.1× |
| Texas | 223 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 135 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 33 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Pinkie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pinkie is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 6.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pinkie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,842 babies since 1880, Pinkie is the most given (80% 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 Pinkie
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 Pinkie and names like it
- Compare Pinkie and PinkeyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPinkie peaked in 1920.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pinkie since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Pinkie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pinkie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.