Pinkney

Pinkney is the 5,460th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,158 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 48,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,158
Rank: 5,460th
How common: 1 in 48,500
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 80.1%
White, not Hispanic 10.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Pinkney

William Pinkney (1764–1822)American politician

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

Surnames like Pinkney

Also a first name

Pinkney has been given to 531 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. 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.