Pinky

Where Pinky comes from

Pinky hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    Debut at its peak, #920
    #920 among girls with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1966
    Pinky Sharon Kekana born
    South African politician
  4. 1966
    Pinky Amador born
    Filipina actress, singer, commercial model, and TV host
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Pinky Amador · Filipina actress, singer, commercial model, and TV host, born 1966
  • Pinky Anand · Indian lawyer
  • Pinky Sharon Kekana · South African politician, born 1966
  • Pinky Agnew · actor, author, social commentator, born 1955
  • Pinky Mitchell · American boxer, 1899–1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.