Given name & surname
Pink
“one who is healthy”
Pink is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “one who is healthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “one who is healthy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
How it developed
From Old English pinca (“chaffinch”), from Vulgar Latin *pincio, from Middle English pink (“something small”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pink through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,127
- 1,089 boys · 38 girls
- Most popular year
- 1881
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1891. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 388 as a first name in 2020; 2,564 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pink’s family of names
In English usage, Pink as a surname shares a linguistic root with the French form PINSON. Pink has a related form in Pinky. Pink has a related form in Pinkie.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Pinkeyvariant
- Pinkyvariant
- Pinkievariant
- Pinkeavariant
- Pinkeevariant
- Pinkivariant
- Pinkavariant
- Pinkevariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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