girls:
579 births since 1880
#5137 (10th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1923
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
585 births since 1880
#7154 (8th percentile)
The name Pinkey is the #7,154 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 585 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,137 (10.1% percentile) for all time with 579 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1923.
Pinkey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1923 for boys). Birth data for Pinkey is available in 67 out of the 85 years between 1880 and 1964 (67 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Pinkey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Pinkey reached its peak popularity in 1910, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #396) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 53 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
For boys, Pinkey reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #550) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pinkey".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pinkey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.3% confident that Pinkey is pronounced as PIHNGK-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PIHN-kee, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like P IH1 N G K IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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