Pinky

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pɪŋki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pinky is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Pinky.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.7K
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

Sources
233 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From English Pinky.

Sources 1

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Pinky, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pinky counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pinky is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—≈18,000 est.≈1 in 15K—Pinky74
PH Philippines—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Pinky80
BD Bangladesh—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Pinky36
ZA South Africa#667≈15,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Pinky37
PK Pakistan—≈4,900 est.≈1 in 48K—Pinky17
HK Hong Kong#371≈2,400 est.≈1 in 3K—Pinky32
NP Nepal—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 14K—Pinky14
US United States—1,2571 in 265K1.2KPinky233

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pinky is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Burmese given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), United States, India

    Also written Pîñkÿ, Piñkÿ, Pĭńķŷ, Pïñkÿ, Píñkÿ

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pinky is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Pinkish.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Akan, e, v, Ak. = benkye, ben, to approach (to); op. no = oben no

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Pinky Mitchell, b. 1899Pinky Bass, b. 1936Pinky Agnew, b. 1955Pinky Amador, b. 1966Pinky Sharon Kekana, b. 1966Pinky Cheung, b. 1971

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Pinky जी,Hi Pinky, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Pinky
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,543
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202057#10,543
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19929—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pinky mean, and where does it come from?
From English Pinky. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Pinky?
A machine transcription gives /pɪŋki/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Pinky a male or female name?
Pinky is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Pinky have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Pinky in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinky.
How common is the name Pinky?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,257 people named Pinky in 2020, about 1 in 265 thousand residents.
How common is Pinky compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Pinky is the 371st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pinky” — the 371st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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