Pinkie

girls:

3.9k births since 1880

#2771 (52nd percentile)

boys:

11 births since 1921

#4575 (0th percentile)

overall:

3.9k births since 1880

#4409 (43rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Pinkie is the #4,409 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,892 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 43.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,771 (51.5% percentile) for all time with 3,881 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1921.

Pinkie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1921 for boys). Birth data for Pinkie is available in 100 out of the 113 years between 1880 and 1992 (100 years for girls and 2 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 Pinkie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Pinkie reached its peak popularity in 1893, achieving the 15.9% percentile (ranked #260) with 244 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 244 births per million (ranked 15.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.

For boys, Pinkie reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #542) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1928.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pinkie".

1880 1992 18801992

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,881
Peak Births
94
Peak Year
1893
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
15.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#260
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
11
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1928
First Recorded
1921
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#542
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Pinkie

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Pinkie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 61.0% confident that Pinkie is pronounced as PIHNGK-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PIHN-kee, at 24.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.

2
61.0%
2
24.4%
2
14.6%
PIHNGK-ee (2 syllables)
61.0% confidence
P IH1 N G K IY0
PIHN-kee (2 syllables)
24.4% confidence
P IH1 N K IY0
PIHNG-kee (2 syllables)
Verified
14.6% confidence
P IH1 NG K IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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