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Pinkie

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Pinkie has been given to 3,892 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 1920, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Pinkie, 1992

1 in 548,000

Pinkie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pinkie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pinkie means

Pinkie is a given name.

The naming story behind Pinkie

Wikidata records Pinkie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q124328367, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,881 girls were recorded with the name Pinkie between 1880 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 94 in 1920; its best national rank was #364 in 1880.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Pinkie between 1921 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1928; its best national rank was #4,040 in 1928.

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.

How common is Pinkie?

Pinkie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 548,000
7 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 263,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
380,179 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pinkie 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 1992 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 380,179 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pinkie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pinkies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pinkie was born before 1921 — so the typical Pinkie is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
508
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (707).

Is Pinkie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (94)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#364
1880

Spellings of Pinkie

Pinkie is not the most common spelling — Minnie is, with 47.1% against Pinkie's 1.1%.

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 Pinkie is used

Across 1910–2025, Pinkie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 23,316 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 5,882
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 5,882
  3. 3Georgia1 in 12,500
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 20,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

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. Pinkie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pinkie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pinkie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Pinky

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pinkie 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
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Best rank ever
#364
1880
Peak year
1920
94 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
3,881
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,040
1928
Peak year
1928
6 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pinkie

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

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Names with a curve like Pinkie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pinkie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Pinkie

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

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