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Pamela
Pronounced /ˈpæmələ/
Rank in 2024
#2,147
Born in 2024
88
Peak year
1954 · #12
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 88 girls were named Pamela, about 1 in every 18,332.
- It peaked in 1954 with 27,362 babies, ranked #12.
- It first shows up in the records in 1895.
- 594,992 girls have been named Pamela since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Pamela per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 1.2Silent1928–45
- 11.0Boomers1946–64
- 5.4Gen X1965–80
- 1.0Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 578 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 24,026 babies, 1.16 per 1,000. Boomers: 394,037 babies, 11.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 138,047 babies, 5.40 per 1,000. Millennials: 28,463 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,133 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,697 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Invented by Sir Philip Sidney for his pastoral poem The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (c 1593). Seemingly created from scratch; some imagine an analysis as Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + μέλι (méli, “honey”) but there is no evidence that this was intended.
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈpæmələ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Pamela, CC BY-SA 4.0.