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How popular is “Pink” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pink” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pink” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Pink” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Pink” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Pink” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Pink” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pink” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 30 0.000148895 30 -100%
1881 35 0.000181641 6 29 -66%
1882 28 0.000126392 28 -100%
1883 17 0.000078361 17 -100%
1884 20 0.000082149 20 -100%
1885 25 0.000103797 25 -100%
1886 27 0.000105751 5 22 -63%
1887 17 0.000068717 17 -100%
1888 17 0.000056766 17 -100%
1889 18 0.000062295 18 -100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 -100%
1891 19 0.000066278 7 12 -26%
1892 14 0.000041869 14 -100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 -100%
1894 16 0.000047241 16 -100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 -100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 -100%
1897 19 0.000054762 19 -100%
1898 19 0.000049809 19 -100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 -100%
1900 22 0.000048861 22 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 13 0.000033615 13 -100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 -100%
1904 16 0.000039655 5 11 -38%
1905 9 0.00002123 9 -100%
1906 12 0.000028008 12 -100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 -100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 -100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 -100%
1914 23 0.000016239 23 -100%
1915 21 0.00001146 21 -100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 -100%
1918 21 0.000009672 21 -100%
1919 31 0.00001469 31 -100%
1920 17 0.000007513 17 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 -100%
1922 24 0.000010484 24 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 20 0.000008398 20 -100%
1925 19 0.000008143 19 -100%
1926 25 0.000010889 25 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 28 0.000012384 28 -100%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 -100%
1932 12 0.000005684 5 7 -17%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 9 0.000004334 9 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 11 0.000005295 11 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Pink:

  1. Pinckney
  2. Pincus
  3. Pine
  4. Piney
  5. Ping
  6. Pink (this page)
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  8. Pinkie
  9. Pinkney
  10. Pinky
  11. Pinny