Pinchus vs Pinkney
American parents have registered 708 Pinchuses since 1880, against 531 Pinkneys. Pinchus is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Pinchus Pinkney
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Pinkney for 60 years and Pinchus for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Pinchus | Pinkney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 708 | 531 |
| Most in one year | 33 | 17 |
| Babies in 2025 | 33 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 700 | 60 |
| Median age today | 16 | 77 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1916 |
| Best rank | 3,450th boys | 1,771st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,450th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1979 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 708 | 0 / 531 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Pinkneys alive today are over 77; half the Pinchuses are over 16. That is 61 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Pinchus New York (12.8×)
- Pinkney South Carolina (58.6×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pinchus and Pinkney.