Dink

Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,886

Peak · boys
1883 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
107
since 1883

Dink over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Dink has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201883peak #892, 1883boys
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First appearance
1883

The first year at least five boys were named Dink! It came in at #892, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1891, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Dink is popular in 1883

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Dink
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1955
  • Biggest drop: 79 spots in 1884 (#892 → #971)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1883
  • Peaked 1883 at #892 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1885, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1883–1884
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,339
  • Highest: 1 in 20,339 boys born in 1892 were named Dink (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 411,978 boys born in 1955 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #892 in 1883, was only 1 in 20,925 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 37.4% of all boys named Dink (40) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s10#892 (1883)#932
1890s11#956 (1892)#1,015
1900s0——
1910s40#2,280 (1917)#3,021
1920s21#3,867 (1924)#4,154
1930s15#3,549 (1936)#3,612
1940s5#3,430 (1944)#3,430
1950s5#3,886 (1955)#3,886

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Dink in 1883

boys
#892
5 births · 1 in 20,925 boys

Top boys' names in 1883

  1. #1John8,894
  2. #2William8,387
  3. #3James5,223
  4. #4Charles4,826
  5. #5George4,736
  6. #6Frank2,986
  7. #7Joseph2,515
  8. #8Henry2,383
  9. #9Robert2,334
  10. #10Thomas2,316
  11. #892Dink5
More about 1883

boys

104,625 boys got a published name in 1883; 1 in 20,925 of them was named Dink, which outranked 13.4% of the 1,030 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dink
  1. #799Wyatt6
  2. #799Zeke6
  3. #799Zeno6
  4. #892Dink5
  5. #892Albertus5
  6. #892Alcide5
  7. #892Alec5

Tied with 138 names at #892; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1882
Risers
  1. ↑ 416Sumner#943 → #527
  2. ↑ 377Alf#837 → #460
  3. ↑ 358Arlie#837 → #479
  4. ↑ 358Everette#837 → #479
  5. ↑ 346Ocie#943 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 429Morton#370 → #799
  2. ↓ 423Saul#469 → #892
  3. ↓ 403Pierce#489 → #892
  4. ↓ 378Bryant#514 → #892
  5. ↓ 352Buck#540 → #892

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1883 →