Pinkey

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Pinkey has been given to 580 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1910, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Pinkey, 1962

1 in 807,000

Pinkey over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pinkey: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pinkey means

Pinkey is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Pinkey is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 574 girls were recorded with the name Pinkey between 1880 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1910; its best national rank was #891 in 1889.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Pinkey between 1923 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1923; its best national rank was #4,139 in 1923.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pinkey?

Pinkey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962: 1 in 807,000; 5 of 4,035,213 births
Among girls only: 1 in 393,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1962: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 559,400 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pinkey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1962 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 559,400 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pinkey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pinkeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pinkey was born before 1920 — so the typical Pinkey is around 105 today.

Median birth year: 1920; About 105 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 17.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 26.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 80; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Pinkey rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1910 (17)
Years since peak: 115; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #891; 1889

Spellings of Pinkey

Pinkey is not the most common spelling — Finley is, with 28.4% against Pinkey's 0.71%.

Finley28.4%22,908
Kinley24.8%19,959
Kinsey9.7%7,818
Mickey8.1%6,546
Vickey7.2%5,807
Linsey6.4%5,125
Pinkie4.8%3,881
Tinley4.5%3,663

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pinkey is used

Across 1910–2025, Pinkey was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 580,767 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pinkey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pinkey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #891; 1889
Peak year: 1910; 17 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 1962
All-time count: 574
Count in 2025: Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,139; 1923
Peak year: 1923; 6 that year
First recorded: 1923
Last recorded: 1923
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pinkey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Pinky Beckey Rickey Nickey Pinkie Pina Mickey Piney Vickey Jackey Mikey Pink Pinar Lakey Ping Mackey Markey Whiskey Frankey Key

Sibling names for Pinkey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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