Pamila
Pamila was last recorded in 1984, when 5 babies were given it; 755 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pamila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pamila?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,643, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1958, the peak
Pamila peaked in 1958, when 40 girls were given it, #1,720 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #11,643 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,092 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,988 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,934 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,357 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,405 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,109 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,713 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,737 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,185 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 13 | #4,111 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,605 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,844 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,119 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,330 | 15.3 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,885 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,343 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,297 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,284 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 33 | #2,001 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,873 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,720 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,834 | 17.6 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,787 | 17.9 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,899 | 16.4 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,279 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,774 | 17.0 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,107 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,952 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,754 | 17.5 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,815 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,848 | 15.9 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,267 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,076 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,416 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,906 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,199 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,909 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pamila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pamila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pamila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pamila, and how old are they?
An estimated 608 Americans named Pamila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 61 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 768 people named Pamila (767 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 653 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 611,558 babies since 1880, Pamila is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Pamila (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 Pamila
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 Pamila and names like it
- Compare Pamila and PamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPamila peaked in 1958.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pamila since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Pamila.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pamila alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.