Pamela is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Pamela is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,308 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,307 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In total, there are currently 587,650 people – children, adults and seniors – named Pamela living in the United States, which is approximately 0.18 % of the entire population.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Pamela reached its highest rank ever in the year 1953 at #10. In other words: 25,790 newborn girls were named Pamela that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Pamela is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Pamela will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Pamela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Pamela ranked 1,857 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 93 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Pamela will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Pamela is one of them. However, Pamela is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Maine seem to particularly fancy this name – the 3,888 women called Pamela who live here are 0,573% of all female residents and push their name up to #30, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Maine.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With six letters, the name Pamela is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Pamela and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Pamela, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pamela
Pamela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
M
E
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
M
E
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Pamela sounds like this:
