US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Pamela name popularity

Pamela has been given to 596,462 babies in the United States since 1895.

It peaked in 1954, when 27,398 babies got the name, and its best rank was #25 in 1953.

In 2025, 82 babies were named Pamela (#4,052 in the country), 99.7% below the peak. That is down 51% from 2015.

Almost every Pamela is a girl.

An estimated 486K people named Pamela are alive in the US today, with a median age of 66.

It was a top-100 name in 29 of the 146 years on record.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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