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Pamela

in the US

There are 507,779 people with the first name "Pamela" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

NameRank
Pamela 66
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  1. is 62nd most common Andrew
  2. is 63rd most common Melissa
  3. is 64th most common Peter
  4. is 65th most common Angela
  5. is 66th most common Pamela
  6. is 67th most common Gregory
  7. is 68th most common Chris
  8. is 69th most common Shirley
  9. is 70th most common Brenda

Similar Names and Nicknames

Pamella, Pamelia, Pamel, Pamelaa, Pamell, Pameal, Pamellia, Pameli, Pamele, Pamelea

Most Common Last Names for Pamela

Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Davis, Miller, Wilson, Moore, Taylor

Meaning & History

(female) 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’.

Variant: Pamella (a modern spelling).

Recent Searches for "Pamela" in the US

Since June 2009
121,178

Most Popular Search

Pamela Smith (3,214 searches)
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