Pâmela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pâmela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Invented by Sir Philip Sidney for his pastoral poem Arcadia (c 1593).
- CLChile≈1 in 334(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 400
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 450
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #165 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 607 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 334 (inferred from the name graph)
495,991 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pamela in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BR Brazil and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Invented by Sir Philip Sidney for his pastoral poem Arcadia (c 1593). Seemingly created from scratch; some imagine an analysis as Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + μέλι (méli, “honey”) but there is no evidence that this was intended.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pâmela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #78 | 495,991 | 1 in 671 | 496K | Pamela | 607 |
| GB United Kingdom | #89 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 450 | listed | Pamela | 295 |
| BR Brazil | #271 | 138,902 | 1 in 1.5K | 139K | Pamela | 183 |
| IT Italy | #191 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | listed | Pamela | 147 |
| EG Egypt | #541 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Pamela | 31 |
| CA Canada | #95 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 568 | 1 | Pamela | 284 |
| CL Chile | #101 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 334 | 13 | Pamela | 168 |
| IE Ireland | #59 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 400 | — | Pamela | 103 |
| NZ New Zealand | #84 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | 14 | Pamela | 120 |
495,991 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pâmela Buttb. 1975BRBrazilian pornographic actress
- Pâmela Bóriob. 1983BRBrazilian journalist
- Pâmela Nogueirab. 1988BRBrazilian synchronized swimmer
- Pâmela Pereirab. 1988BRBrazilian Paralympic sitting volleyball player
- Pâmela Toméb. 1993BRBrazilian actress
- Pâmela Rosab. 1999BRBrazilian skateboarder
- Pâmela Lavorresearcher
- Pâmela CôtoBRBrazilian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 139K | #349 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pâmela mean, and where does it come from?
- Invented by Sir Philip Sidney for his pastoral poem Arcadia (c 1593). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 4 other sources.
- Is Pâmela a male or female name?
- Pâmela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pâmela have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 496 thousand people named Pâmela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pamela.
- How common is the name Pâmela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 495,991 people named Pâmela in 2020, about 1 in 671 residents.
- How common is Pâmela compared with other names?
- In the United States, Pâmela is the 78th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pâmela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A2melaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pâmela” — the 78th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.