# Pink (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pink/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,578 |
| US rank (2010) | 12,089 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 119,762 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.9% (2,434 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from Old English pinca (“chaffinch”). This would not be a native Germanic inheritance as the expected form would be finc, thus probably borrowed or contaminated from Vulgar Latin *pincio (see French pinson) and its related parallels. * Also as an English surname, from rare Middle English pink (“something small”), presumably related to pinkie. * As a German occupational surname for a blacksmith, from imitative pink(e)pank, after the sound of hammering. * As a Lower Sorbian surname, variant of Pjeńk, see Penk.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pink in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 69% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 24% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pink in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Pink

- Daniel H. Pink, American business writer
- Arthur Pink, British biblical scholar (1886–1952)
- Steve Pink, American actor and filmmaker
- Sidney W. Pink, American film director and producer (1916–2002)

## Similar surnames

Penick, Ping, Pines, Pinnix, Ponce, Pence, Peng, Paniagua, Pang, Phung, Pankey, Phoenix.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.