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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Pamela

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#2,251

down −82 places

2025 births

82

down −6 births

All-time births

595,076

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1954
27,361 births
Best rank
#10
in 1953
First recorded
1895
#1,761 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
120 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195427,361#12Peak
  2. 195626,928#12
  3. 195526,690#12
  4. 195325,760#10
  5. 195825,279#11

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #10 in 1953 · peak births 27,361 in 1954

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

1,386 boys · 595,076 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Pamela has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.