Pinsky
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Pinsky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 977 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Pinsky is also written Пинский in Cyrillic.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 53Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 190Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 340K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pinsky itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
977 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pinsky in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Пинский in RU Russia, IL Israel, BY Belarus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Pinsky is found
(measured from records)Pinsky 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 977 | 1 in 340K | 977 | Pinsky | 247 |
| RU Russia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 434K | — | Пинский | 89 |
| CA Canada | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Pinsky | 64 |
| IL Israel | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Пинский | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 420K | 25 | Pinsky | 45 |
| BY Belarus | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Пинский | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Pinsky | 1 |
977 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- David Pinskib. 1872ILnot in their usual nameYiddish language writer (1872 – 1959)
- Robert Pinskyb. 1940USAmerican poet, editor, literary critic, academic (born 1940)
- Drew Pinskyb. 1958USAmerican radio and television personality, physician, addiction medicine specialist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pinsky?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 977 people named Pinsky, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pinsky. After it come Russia, Canada, Israel and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pinsky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 977 people named Pinsky in 2010, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinskyThe 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, “Pinsky” — ranked 24827th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.