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Pamila

Girls' name

Variant of Pamela

Pamila has been given to 755 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1958, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Pamila, 1984

1 in 698,000

Pamila 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pamila: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Pamela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pamila means

Pamila is a variant of Pamela.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pamila is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pamila → 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, 755 girls were recorded with the name Pamila between 1941 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,720 in 1958.

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 Pamila?

Pamila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 698,000
5 of 3,488,451 births
Among girls only
1 in 337,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
483,603 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pamila 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 1984 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 483,603 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pamila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pamilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pamila was born before 1958 — so the typical Pamila is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
641
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (315).

Is Pamila 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (40)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,720
1958

Spellings of Pamila

Pamila is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 40.8% against Pamila's 0.05%.

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 Pamila is used

Across 1910–2025, Pamila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,151,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Pamila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pamila around the world

Where Pamila 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.

  • South Australia
    1971–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pamila 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,720
1958
Peak year
1958
40 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
755
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pamila

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

AquilaNabilaPamulaTehilaAlailaAmeilaKalilaYamilaKhailaGelilaMailaAkilaDailaPamlaAvilaMeilaZailaAnilaPricilaJalilaAmilaLucilaCailaJanila

Sibling names for Pamila

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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