Paméla

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Paméla 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).

rarermore common
  • 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)

495,991 people, 2020

#165 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
607 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 334 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PamélaLatin(measured from records)
პამელაGeorgian(measured from records)
파멜라Hangul(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 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Paméla 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.

Where Paméla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#78495,9911 in 671496KPamela607
GB United Kingdom#89≈150,000 est.≈1 in 450listedPamela295
BR Brazil#271138,9021 in 1.5K139KPamela183
IT Italy#191≈90,000 est.≈1 in 697listedPamela147
EG Egypt#541≈81,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Pamela31
CA Canada#95≈66,000 est.≈1 in 5681Pamela284
CL Chile#101≈54,000 est.≈1 in 33413Pamela168
IE Ireland#59≈13,000 est.≈1 in 400—Pamela103
NZ New Zealand#84≈11,000 est.≈1 in 46314Pamela120

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Paméla is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Pámela, Pamelá, Pâmela, Pamela

  • Hungarian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Pamela, Pâmela, Pämelä, Pámela, Pämëlä

  • Italian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Pamela, Pâmela, Pàmela, Pämëlä, Pamëla

  • Hindi given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Pamela, Pâmela, Pámela

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Pamela, Pâmela, Pámela, Pämêľä

  • Polish given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Pamela, Памела, Памэла, Pâmela, Pámela

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Paméla under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Paméla 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 Paméla a male or female name?
Paméla 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 Paméla have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 496 thousand people named Paméla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pamela.
How common is the name Paméla?
In the United States, the national register counted 495,991 people named Paméla in 2020, about 1 in 671 residents.
How common is Paméla compared with other names?
In the United States, Paméla is the 78th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Paméla” — the 78th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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