Pamela — #2144 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Pamela

The Social Security Administration has registered 594,992 babies named Pamela between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pamela currently holds the #2144 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 27,362 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pamela performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 237,395 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Pamela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 47,379 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Pamela in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pamela 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 594,992 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.