Pamelia
Pamelia was last recorded in 1985, when 5 babies were given it; 2,229 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Pamelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 63 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pamelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pamelia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,934, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
103 babies in 1954, the peak
Pamelia peaked in 1954, when 103 girls were given it, #953 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,934 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,935 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,761 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,832 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,435 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,289 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,819 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,945 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,684 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,432 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 14 | #4,235 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,579 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,226 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,437 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,277 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,999 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,973 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,524 | 30.6 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,491 | 30.6 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,347 | 35.3 |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,320 | 36.1 |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,220 | 40.6 |
| 1960 | 78 | #1,246 | 38.6 |
| 1959 | 88 | #1,139 | 43.5 |
| 1958 | 86 | #1,148 | 42.8 |
| 1957 | 77 | #1,207 | 37.7 |
| 1956 | 73 | #1,225 | 36.4 |
| 1955 | 90 | #1,066 | 46.0 |
| 1954 | 103 | #953 | 53.0 |
| 1953 | 90 | #1,016 | 47.8 |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,035 | 44.8 |
| 1951 | 79 | #1,047 | 43.9 |
| 1950 | 75 | #1,068 | 43.8 |
| 1949 | 90 | #939 | 52.6 |
| 1948 | 72 | #1,046 | 42.4 |
| 1947 | 55 | #1,222 | 31.0 |
| 1946 | 55 | #1,160 | 35.0 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,170 | 35.2 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,304 | 28.6 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,580 | 20.8 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,582 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,168 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,883 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,281 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,418 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,167 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,932 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,694 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,182 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,955 | 16.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,221 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,928 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,265 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,696 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,912 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,686 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,217 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,598 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,919 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,932 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,607 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,879 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,395 | 4.4 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,471 | 5.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,805 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,396 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,589 | 8.0 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,735 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pamelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pamelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pamelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pamelia, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 2,229 Americans ever recorded as Pamelia. The median Pamelia alive today is 69 years old; half are between 63 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 1,722 people named Pamelia (1,722 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 121 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pamelia born?
The states with the most babies named Pamelia are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 163 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 106 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 94 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 82 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 45 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 37 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 36 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Pamelia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pamelia is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pamelia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 611,558 babies since 1880, Pamelia is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Pamelia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pamelia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pamelia and names like it
- Compare Pamelia and PamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPamelia peaked in 1954.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pamelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Pamelia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pamelia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.