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    The first name Pam

    A girl’s name.

    1 syllable Female

    Meaning and origin

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    Pam is a short form of

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    From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    Popularity in the United States

    Babies named Pam at birth, 1880–2025

    In 1996, 5 girls born in the United States were named Pam, the 15,216th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1959, when 3,677 were.

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    33,148
    babies named Pam since 1880
    #15,216
    rank in 1996
    1959
    peak year

    US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.

    Famous people named Pam

    16 on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Pam Bondi
      American attorney and politician (born 1965)
    • Pam Ferris
      British actress, born 1948
    • Pam Dawber
      American actress, born 1951
    • Pam Tillis
      American country singer, born 1957
    • Pam Teeguarden
      American tennis player, born 1951
    • Pam Marshall
      American sprinter, born 1960
    • Pam Bileck
      Former gymnast, born 1968
    • Pam Ayres
      English poet, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes, born 1947
    • Pam Brady
      American screenwriter and television producer, born 1973
    • Pam Muñoz Ryan
      American writer, born 1951
    • Pam Brown
      Australian poet and writer, born 1948
    • Pam Fletcher
      Alpine skier, born 1963

    Questions

    What does the name Pam mean?
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    Is Pam a boy's or a girl's name?
    Mostly a girl's name: 100% of the 33,148 US babies named Pam since 1880 were girls.
    When was Pam most popular?
    1959 in the United States, when 3,677 babies were named Pam, its highest rank at 125th.