# Pam (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pam/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 33,148 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 23 / 33,125 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Clipping.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 29 | 2,973 |
| 1980 | 24 | 3,472 |
| 1981 | 14 | 5,165 |
| 1982 | 25 | 3,392 |
| 1983 | 18 | 4,234 |
| 1984 | 17 | 4,442 |
| 1985 | 8 | 8,092 |
| 1986 | 9 | 7,556 |
| 1987 | 10 | 7,188 |
| 1988 | 13 | 6,156 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,908 |
| 1990 | 10 | 8,335 |
| 1991 | 6 | 12,646 |
| 1992 | 5 | 14,890 |
| 1996 | 5 | 15,216 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 6 | 3,870 |
| 1960 | 10 | 2,814 |
| 1962 | 7 | 3,544 |

## People named Pam

- Pam Bondi, American attorney and politician (born 1965)
- Pam Ferris, British actress
- Pam Dawber, American actress
- Pam Tillis, American country singer
- Pam Teeguarden, American tennis player
- Pam Marshall, American sprinter
- Pam Bileck, former gymnast
- Pam Ayres, English poet, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes
- Pam Brady, American screenwriter and television producer
- Pam Muñoz Ryan, American writer
- Pam Brown, Australian poet and writer
- Pam Fletcher, alpine skier

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.