How Many People Are Named Pamella?
people named Pamella are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 136,441 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,166 babies named Pamella in Social Security records from 1928 to 2015, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
149 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of PAMELA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Pamella in English. Counting Pamella and these spellings together, about 495,829 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Pamella in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Pamella alive today is about 64 years old, and 73% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 59 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Pamella first appears in the records in 1928 and was given most often in 1954, to 149 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2015.
Babies given the name each year, 1928 to 2015
🏆 Rank History
Pamella has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #765, in 1954.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #765 (1954) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #876 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Pamella alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Pamella were born in California than in any other state: about 184 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Pamella was given 2.7 times as often in California, 2.4 times in Ohio and 2.2 times in Illinois.
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