Pammie

Girls' name

Pam with the suffix -ie

Pammie has been given to 101 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1962, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Pammie, 1973

1 in 503,000

Pammie over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pammie: meaning, origin, and history

Pam with the suffix -ie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pammie means

Pammie is formed from Pam with the suffix -ie.

Origin, language, and formation

Pammie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pam and Pamela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 101 girls were recorded with the name Pammie between 1960 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1962; its best national rank was #3,945 in 1962.

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.

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How common is Pammie?

Pammie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973: 1 in 503,000; 6 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only: 1 in 243,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 348,505 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pammie 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 1973 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 348,505 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pammie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pammies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pammie was born before 1965 — so the typical Pammie is around 60 today.

Median birth year: 1965; About 60 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 75.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 101; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 75.2% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Pammie 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: —; 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 1962 (12)
Years since peak: 63; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,945; 1962

Spellings of Pammie

Pammie is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 50.8% against Pammie's 0.02%.

Jamie50.8%270,936
Mamie14.6%77,907
Tammie6.6%35,380
Jimmie4.3%22,999
Amie4.1%21,608
Tommie3.3%17,769
Tammi2.6%13,884
Emmie1.9%10,387

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.

Pammie 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: #3,945; 1962
Peak year: 1962; 12 that year
First recorded: 1960
Last recorded: 1973
All-time count: 101
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pammie

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

Pamie Pamlea Raymie Kyomie Nyomie Remmie Pamelyn Pamale Esmie Blimie Pamalee Jemmie Samie Pamler Pamel Lummie Pamilla Niomie Lemmie Pami Simmie Nehemie Noemie Pamula

Sibling names for Pammie

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

For a sister

Donita Carmel Tena Jeanetta Tana Treva Jonna Edie

For a brother

Tod Greggory Mitch Berry Art Chet Toney Cornell

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