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Meaning & Origins
Invented by the Elizabethan pastoral poet Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86), in whose verse it is stressed on the second syllable. There is no clue to the sources that influenced Sidney in this coinage. It was later taken up by Samuel Richardson for the name of the heroine of his novel Pamela (1740). In Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742), which started out as a parody of Pamela, Fielding comments that the name is ‘very strange’.
| 66th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, so named from the genitive case of the northern English personal name Mack + Old English ēg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’.
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Nicknames & variations
Pamella, Pamelia, Pamel, Pamelaa, Pamell, Pameal, Pamellia, Pameli, Pamele, Pamelea
Magee, Maze, Mase, Maxedon, Moxey, Maxe, Madey, Maxell, Maxeiner, Masey
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