Pinkney
Pinkney was last recorded in 1958, when 6 babies were given it; 531 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pinkney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pinkney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,834, in 1958; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1916, the peak
Pinkney peaked in 1916, when 17 boys were given it, #1,827 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 6 | #3,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,356 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 10 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,381 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,398 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,564 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,209 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,213 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,904 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,384 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,064 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,165 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,827 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,416 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,233 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,219 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,692 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,099 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,411 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,101 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,109 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 9 | #954 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 11 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 7 | #958 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 7 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 13 | #520 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 7 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 10 | #621 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 6 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 8 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 9 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 11 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 9 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 10 | #629 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pinkney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pinkney has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pinkney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pinkney, and how old are they?
An estimated 53 Americans named Pinkney 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 123 people named Pinkney (8 women and girls, 115 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 80 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Pinkney
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 Pinkney and names like it
- Compare Pinkney and WinfieldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sPinkney peaked in 1916.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pinkney since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Pinkney.
- Names starting with PMost given first.