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Pamella

Girls' name

Variant of Pamela

Pamella has been given to 3,166 babies in the U.S. since 1928. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 149 recorded.

Babies named Pamella, 2015

1 in 740,000

Pamella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pamella: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Pamela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pamella means

Pamella is a variant of Pamela.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pamella is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpæm.ə.lə/ for Pamella.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pamella → Pamela. The family’s meaning is “all + honey”, recorded in English with the source elements πᾶς and μέλι.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pamela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,166 girls were recorded with the name Pamella between 1928 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 149 in 1954; its best national rank was #765 in 1954.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pamella?

Pamella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pamella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pamella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pamellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pamella was born before 1956 — so the typical Pamella is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,409
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (1,254).

Is Pamella rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (149)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1954

Spellings of Pamella

Pamella is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 60.6% against Pamella's 0.32%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pamella is used

Across 1910–2025, Pamella was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 105,745 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pamella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pamella around the world

Where Pamella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1975–1998
    #3,933
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #1,815
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1944–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pamella in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pamella. Linked forms have their own page here.

PamelaPamilaPammelaPâmelaPâmilaPammella

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pamella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#765
1954
Peak year
1954
149 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
3,166
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pamella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KamillaMirellaArdellaAngellaPameliaJanellaPamillaDonellaLovellaNovellaGisellaNoellaDrusillaSabellaJamillaMarbellaJoellaOzellaPricillaMiabellaPamallaLucillaYsabellaAbriella

Names with a curve like Pamella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pamella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaranCheryllGlindaSherrylDremaCorlissCindaMerrieSheilahGwendaCathieCheryle

Sibling names for Pamella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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