Pinkie
Pinkie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 364th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192094 births
- Best rank
- #364in 1880
- Since 1880
- 3,881people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,881 girls have been named Pinkie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 94 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 94 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pinkie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 243 | |
| 1890s | 408 | |
| 1900s | 488 | |
| 1910s | 687 | |
| 1920s | 707 | |
| 1930s | 447 | |
| 1940s | 393 | |
| 1950s | 296 | |
| 1960s | 146 | |
| 1970s | 28 | |
| 1980s | 31 | |
| 1990s | 7 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Pinkie was the 749th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Pinkie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clemmiepeak 1916
- Orapeak 1919
- Lenniepeak 1915
- Polliepeak 1920
- Olliepeak 1919
- Ethapeak 1920
- Ludiepeak 1916
- Lolliepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.