Pinkey
Last seen for girls in 1962 at #6,578 · Last seen for boys in 1923 at #3,822
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1883 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 574since 1880
Pinkey over time
Rank among girls' names. Pinkey has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
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| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
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| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | — | |
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| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 | — | |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,433 | 14 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,809 | 12 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,515 | 13 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,316 | 14 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,833 | 10 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,255 | 13 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
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| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
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| 1910 | #1,069 | 17 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,357 | 10 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,639 | 7 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,043 | 13 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,298 | 9 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,251 | 9 | — | |
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| 1902 | #1,133 | 10 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,008 | 14 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,009 | 12 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,094 | 9 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,202 | 8 | — | |
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| 1893 | #1,023 | 9 | — | |
| 1892 | #1,450 | 5 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,210 | 6 | — | |
| 1889 | #839 | 10 | — | |
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| 1887 | #1,036 | 6 | — | |
| 1886 | #1,108 | 5 | — | |
| 1885 | #1,047 | 5 | — | |
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| 1883 | #817 | 6 | — | |
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| 1880 | #836 | 5 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Pinkey was already there! It came in at #836, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1882, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Pinkey
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1962
- Biggest drop: 371 spots in 1890 (#839 → #1,210)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1883 at #817 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1884, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1880–1889
- Highest: 1 in 17,837 girls born in 1889 were named Pinkey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 393,321 girls born in 1962 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #817 in 1883, was only 1 in 18,720 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.8% of all girls named Pinkey (102) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | #817 (1883) | #947 |
| 1890s | 66 | #1,009 (1898) | #1,246 |
| 1900s | 84 | #1,008 (1900) | #1,352 |
| 1910s | 90 | #1,069 (1910) | #2,458 |
| 1920s | 102 | #2,433 (1927) | #3,145 |
| 1930s | 42 | #2,386 (1936) | #3,194 |
| 1940s | 73 | #2,817 (1942) | #3,527 |
| 1950s | 75 | #2,695 (1954) | #4,504 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,578 (1962) | #6,578 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Pinkey in 1889
Top girls' names in 1889
More about 1889
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178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 17,837 of them was named Pinkey, which outranked 43.3% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).