Pinkey vs Pinkney
American parents have registered 580 Pinkeys since 1880, against 531 Pinkneys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Pinkey 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 77 years in which either name was published, Pinkey for 43 years and Pinkney for 34 years. The lead changed hands 27 times.
- 1880–1884 Pinkney ahead
- 1892–1910 Pinkey ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1911–1934 Pinkney ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1940–1957 Pinkey ahead, apart from 2 short spells
18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Pinkey | Pinkney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 580 | 531 |
| Most in one year | 17 | 17 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 120 | 60 |
| Median age today | 75 | 77 |
| Peak year | 1910 | 1916 |
| Best rank | 1,069th girls | 1,771st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 574 / 6 | 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 Pinkeys are over 75. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pinkey and Pinkney.