Pinkney
Last seen for boys in 1958 at #3,559
- Peak · boys
- 1891 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 531since 1880
Pinkney over time
Rank among boys' names. Pinkney has never cracked the top 400 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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| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,216 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #2,608 | 9 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | #2,405 | 10 |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,197 | 11 |
| 1936 | #2,629 | 8 |
| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | #1,848 | 16 |
| 1931 | #2,003 | 14 |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #2,298 | 13 |
| 1926 | #2,725 | 10 |
| 1925 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | #2,229 | 14 |
| 1923 | #2,224 | 14 |
| 1922 | #2,801 | 10 |
| 1921 | #2,632 | 11 |
| 1920 | #2,336 | 13 |
| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #2,091 | 14 |
| 1916 | #1,771 | 17 |
| 1915 | #2,310 | 11 |
| 1914 | #2,101 | 10 |
| 1913 | #1,580 | 12 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
| 1911 | #1,537 | 6 |
| 1910 | #1,045 | 10 |
| 1909 | #1,277 | 6 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,345 | 5 |
| 1906 | — | |
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| 1903 | #1,009 | 6 |
| 1902 | #1,013 | 6 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #902 | 9 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #663 | 11 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #900 | 7 |
| 1895 | #872 | 7 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,035 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #497 | 13 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #789 | 7 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #583 | 10 |
| 1886 | #845 | 6 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #701 | 8 |
| 1883 | #644 | 9 |
| 1882 | #576 | 11 |
| 1881 | #595 | 9 |
| 1880 | #600 | 10 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Pinkney was already there! It came in at #600, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Pinkney
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1958
- Biggest jump: 262 spots in 1887 (#845 → #583)
- Biggest drop: 68 spots in 1883 (#576 → #644)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1891 at #497 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1892, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1880–1884
- Highest: 1 in 7,784 boys born in 1891 were named Pinkney (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 353,735 boys born in 1958 (0.00%)
- 22.0% of all boys named Pinkney (117) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 70 | #576 (1882) | #667 |
| 1890s | 43 | #497 (1891) | #793 |
| 1900s | 32 | #902 (1900) | #1,109 |
| 1910s | 106 | #1,045 (1910) | #2,006 |
| 1920s | 117 | #2,012 (1925) | #2,535 |
| 1930s | 80 | #1,848 (1932) | #2,780 |
| 1940s | 48 | #2,405 (1943) | #3,015 |
| 1950s | 35 | #3,066 (1951) | #3,591 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Pinkney in 1889
Top boys' names in 1889
More about 1889
boys
110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 15,797 of them was named Pinkney, which outranked 29.0% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).