The inventor of the ATM John Shepherd-Baron, originally made 6 digit pin codes, but his wife could only remember four. So that's what stuck

The inventor of the ATM, John Shepherd-Barron, at first envisioned a six-digit numeric code for customer authentication. His wife however could only remember four digits, which became the most commonly used length.[3] @Curionic
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