Pam

Last seen for girls in 1996 at #13,518 · Last seen for boys in 1962 at #3,305
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1959 · 3,677 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
33,125
since 1915

Pam over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Pam has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #125, 1959girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five girls were named Pam! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Pam is popular in 1915

No state had 5 or more girls named Pam in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Pam
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1996
  • Biggest jump: 834 spots in 1940 (#1,797 → #963)
  • Biggest drop: 396 spots in 1974 (#990 → #1,386)
Rise & fade · girls
44 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1959 at #125 (3,677 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 34 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1940–1973
Share of babies · girls
1 in 550
  • Highest: 1 in 550 girls born in 1959 were named Pam (0.18%)
  • Latest: 1 in 350,601 girls born in 1996 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 51.6% of all girls named Pam (17,109) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,274 (1915)#4,274
1920s7#3,875 (1927)#3,875
1930s116#1,580 (1937)#2,664
1940s3,357#305 (1947)#503
1950s11,235#125 (1959)#398
1960s17,109#132 (1960)#262
1970s1,126#560 (1970)#1,639
1980s144#3,344 (1982)#5,837
1990s26#7,880 (1990)#11,556

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Pam in 1915

girls
#4,274
5 births · 1 in 196,770 girls

Top girls' names in 1915

  1. #1Mary58,187
  2. #2Helen30,866
  3. #3Dorothy25,154
  4. #4Margaret23,054
  5. #5Ruth21,878
  6. #6Mildred15,254
  7. #7Anna15,119
  8. #8Elizabeth14,103
  9. #9Frances12,786
  10. #10Evelyn11,595
  11. #4,274Pam5
More about 1915

girls

983,852 girls got a published name in 1915; 1 in 196,770 of them was named Pam, which outranked 14.0% of the 4,967 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Pam
  1. #3,795Zillah6
  2. #3,795Zillie6
  3. #3,795Zorka6
  4. #4,274Pam5
  5. #4,274Aagot5
  6. #4,274Achsah5
  7. #4,274Adabelle5

Tied with 693 names at #4,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. ↑ 500Gerda#1,444 → #944
  2. ↑ 451Theda#1,034 → #583
  3. ↑ 441Dominga#1,385 → #944
  4. ↑ 354Vernon#1,344 → #990
  5. ↑ 308Loyce#1,147 → #839
Fallers
  1. ↓ 383Drusilla#956 → #1,339
  2. ↓ 342Rossie#798 → #1,140
  3. ↓ 335Arlie#855 → #1,190
  4. ↓ 329Orene#956 → #1,285
  5. ↓ 329Margot#988 → #1,317

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1915 →