Pamella
Pamella was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 3,166 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Pamella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pamella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pamella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,465, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
149 babies in 1954, the peak
Pamella peaked in 1954, when 149 girls were given it, #765 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,465 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,042 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,868 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,280 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,378 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,346 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,078 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,735 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,133 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,745 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #13,465 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,201 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,511 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,198 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,921 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,478 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,016 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,337 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,380 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,428 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,191 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,139 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,038 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,828 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,980 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,521 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,375 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,018 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,116 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,566 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,286 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,670 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,462 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,649 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,260 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,165 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,283 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,479 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,813 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,907 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,878 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,232 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,296 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,950 | 24.9 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,847 | 25.6 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,718 | 27.3 |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,298 | 41.4 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,589 | 28.3 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,492 | 30.6 |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,314 | 36.8 |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,273 | 38.6 |
| 1961 | 90 | #1,164 | 44.6 |
| 1960 | 107 | #1,039 | 52.9 |
| 1959 | 126 | #933 | 62.3 |
| 1958 | 124 | #928 | 61.6 |
| 1957 | 148 | #836 | 72.4 |
| 1956 | 144 | #824 | 71.7 |
| 1955 | 146 | #801 | 74.7 |
| 1954 | 149 | #765 | 76.7 |
| 1953 | 137 | #784 | 72.8 |
| 1952 | 90 | #994 | 48.5 |
| 1951 | 93 | #964 | 51.6 |
| 1950 | 97 | #906 | 56.6 |
| 1949 | 110 | #845 | 64.3 |
| 1948 | 99 | #878 | 58.3 |
| 1947 | 115 | #817 | 64.9 |
| 1946 | 81 | #928 | 51.5 |
| 1945 | 68 | #922 | 52.0 |
| 1944 | 76 | #876 | 57.3 |
| 1943 | 63 | #1,002 | 45.2 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,381 | 25.9 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,735 | 18.2 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,628 | 21.0 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,549 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,885 | 9.1 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,044 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,365 | 7.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,298 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,235 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,589 | 7.1 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,269 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pamella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pamella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pamella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pamella, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 3,166 Americans ever recorded as Pamella. The median Pamella alive today is 68 years old; half are between 60 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,994 people named Pamella (2,992 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,679 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 166 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,590 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 427 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 99 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Pamella born?
The states with the most babies named Pamella are California, Ohio and Illinois, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 240 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 148 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 135 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 96 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 89 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 70 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 50 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 48 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Pamella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Pamella?
Pamella is a less common spelling of Pamela: SSA has recorded 3,166 Pamella and 596,462 Pamela since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 611,558 babies since 1880, Pamella is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Pamella (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 Pamella
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 Pamella and names like it
- Compare Pamella and PamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPamella peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pamella since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Pamella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pamella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.