Pam — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pam

The Social Security Administration has registered 33,125 babies named Pam between 1915 and 1996, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pam currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 3,677 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pam performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 17,109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Pam shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Pam in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pam in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 33,125 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.