Pink vs Pinkey
American parents have registered 1,127 Pinks since 1880, against 580 Pinkeys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Pink Pinkey
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 83 years in which either name was published, Pink for 65 years and Pinkey for 18 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1880–1935 Pink ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1940–1946 Pinkey ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1947–1951 Pink ahead
- 1952–1955 Pinkey ahead
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Pink | Pinkey | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,127 | 580 |
| Most in one year | 35 | 17 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 100 | 120 |
| Median age today | 75 | 75 |
| Peak year | 1919 | 1910 |
| Best rank | 1,264th boys | 1,069th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 38 / 1,089 | 574 / 6 |
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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pink and Pinkey.