Pink

The name Pink is the #6,612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,127 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 14.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,512 (23.4% percentile) for all time with 1,089 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1881.

Pink has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls). Birth data for Pink is available in 80 out of the 136 years between 1880 and 2015 (78 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

The name Pink has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2015, 0.0% of babies named Pink were boys. Interestingly, until around 2012, the name was more popular for boys (97.5% boys from 1880 to 2011), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2012 to 2015).

For boys, Pink reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 13.0% percentile (ranked #162) with 268 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 268 births per million (ranked 13.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1961.

For girls, Pink reached its peak popularity in 1891, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #285) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 61 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.