Girls' name · since 1883
Pinky
Pinky has 370 recorded births since 1883 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1951 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #14,169 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 370
- born since 1883
- 1950s
- peak decade
Pinky is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 370 have been recorded since 1883.
Pinky has 370 recorded births among girls since 1883, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1883 to 1992.
- #14,169 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 370 born since 1883
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Pinky ranks #14,169 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 370 born since 1883, peaking in the 1950s.
- #14,169 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 370
- born since 1883
- 1950s
- peak decade
Pinky's 370 recorded births place it above 80.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Pinky's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Pinky splits its recorded history at 1940: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1883 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1951 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Pinky popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1883–1992
- Peak year (1951)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 110 years of records
Pinky by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (76 births, 21% of the file).
1950s was Pinky's strongest decade.
76 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 21% of all-time use.
Pinky births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1880s 5
1880s
5 births
- 1890s
1890s
34 births
- 1900s 22
1900s
22 births
- 1910s
1910s
31 births
- 1920s 30
1920s
30 births
- 1930s
1930s
37 births
- 1940s
1940s
36 births
- 1950s
1950s
76 births
- 1960s
1960s
36 births
- 1970s 28
1970s
28 births
- 1980s 18
1980s
18 births
- 1990s 17
1990s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 76 births (21% of all-time use).
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- Pinky's decade-level peak was the 1950s (76 total births); usage has since declined to 17 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Pinky: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1951)
Similar record span (~109 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1883–1992 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Pinky draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.