Pinkie or Pinky is an English given name or hypocorism taken from a diminutive term for the color pink.

It is also occasionally a diminutive for names such as Patricia.

Variants include Pink, Pinka, Pinke, Pinkee, Pinkey, and Pinki.

[1] The name was among the 1,000 most popular names for girls born in the United States at different times between 1880 and 1935.

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