Pinky
Pinky was last recorded in 1992, when 9 babies were given it; 370 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 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 Pinky by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pinky mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Pinky is “a female given name”
Borrowed from English Pinky.
/ˈpiŋki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pinky?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,287, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1951, the peak
Pinky peaked in 1951, when 14 girls were given it, #2,897 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 9 | #9,287 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,983 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,949 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,001 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,796 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,411 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,290 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,299 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,426 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,157 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #6,370 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,464 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,708 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,642 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,423 | 4.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,793 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,645 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,656 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,425 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,386 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,897 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,227 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,852 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,315 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,086 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,088 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,874 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,773 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,146 | 5.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,100 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,726 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,190 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,124 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,946 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,101 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,444 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,347 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,972 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,604 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,191 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,480 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,295 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,818 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,112 | 9.2 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,362 | 15.0 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,017 | 19.1 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,441 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,168 | 16.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,911 | 19.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,550 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,280 | 34.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,612 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,624 | 23.5 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,491 | 26.3 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,025 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pinky a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pinky has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pinky: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pinky, and how old are they?
An estimated 179 Americans named Pinky and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 48 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,257 people named Pinky (1,200 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.2 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,842 babies since 1880, Pinky is the third most given (7.6% 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 Pinky
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 Pinky and names like it
- Compare Pinky and PinkieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPinky peaked in 1951.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Pinky.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pinky alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.