Pamla
Pamla was last recorded in 1985, when 6 babies were given it; 795 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pamla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pamla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,259, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1953, the peak
Pamla peaked in 1953, when 39 girls were given it, #1,579 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #10,259 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,759 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,625 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,290 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,890 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,521 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,935 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,290 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,236 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,757 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 26 | #2,751 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,750 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,028 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,033 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,550 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,518 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,178 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,200 | 15.6 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,246 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,519 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,134 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,044 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,151 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,332 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,038 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,051 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,354 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,579 | 20.7 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,108 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,097 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,107 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,588 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,933 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,743 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,708 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,424 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,265 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,663 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,020 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,910 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pamla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pamla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pamla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pamla, and how old are they?
An estimated 644 Americans named Pamla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 59 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 710 people named Pamla (705 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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, Pamla is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Pamla (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 Pamla
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 Pamla and names like it
- Compare Pamla and PamelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPamla peaked in 1953.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pamla since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Pamla.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pamla alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.