Pink

Pink is the 11,692nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,564 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 117,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,564
Rank: 11,692nd
How common: 1 in 117,000
Per 100,000: 0.86

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from Old English pinca (“chaffinch”). This would not be a native Germanic inheritance as the expected form would be finc, thus probably borrowed or contaminated from Vulgar Latin *pincio (see French pinson) and its related parallels.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pink described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.8%
Black, not Hispanic 24.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Pink

Pink (born 1979)American singer, songwriter, and actress
Ariel Pink (born 1978)American musician, singer, and songwriter
Daniel H. Pink (born 1964)American business writer
Arthur Pink (1886–1952)British biblical scholar

People named Pink with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pink

Also a first name

Pink has been given to 1,127 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1919. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.