Pinches
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- PIN-khes
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Pinches is a boys' name, meaning “the Nubian”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Pinches mean?
Yiddish form of Pinchas (Phinehas), probably from Egyptian
“the Nubian”
The Yiddish form of Pinchas, Aaron's grandson, a priest praised for his zeal in the Book of Numbers.
Is Pinches a girl's or a boy's name?
Pinches is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Pinches in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Pinches, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Pinches in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 60 boys in the US were given Pinches or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,972, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Pinches in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
Names like Pinches
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ares, Atlas, Atreus, Thiago, Luca, Perseus, Rhodes, Moses, Archer, Ezra, Wylder, Aziel
Other spellings of Pinches
Names related to Pinches
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Pinches: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/pinches, updated 20 October 2026.