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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Pam” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pam” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pam” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Pam” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Pam” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Pam” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Pam” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pam” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1933 13 0.000006502 13 100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 100%
1938 18 0.000008135 18 100%
1939 19 0.000008623 19 100%
1940 55 0.000023885 55 100%
1941 72 0.000029551 72 100%
1942 146 0.000053444 146 100%
1943 282 0.000099909 282 100%
1944 325 0.000120814 325 100%
1945 349 0.000131554 349 100%
1946 546 0.000170876 546 100%
1947 667 0.000185158 667 100%
1948 572 0.000165676 572 100%
1949 343 0.000098428 343 100%
1950 229 0.000065366 229 100%
1951 191 0.000051849 191 100%
1952 205 0.000053976 205 100%
1953 245 0.000063576 245 100%
1954 325 0.000081644 325 100%
1955 473 0.000117806 473 100%
1956 866 0.000210039 866 100%
1957 1965 0.000467619 1959 6 99%
1958 3065 0.00074143 3065 100%
1959 3677 0.000884321 3677 100%
1960 3416 0.000822377 3406 10 99%
1961 3083 0.000744272 3083 100%
1962 2817 0.000698077 2810 7 100%
1963 2385 0.000602547 2385 100%
1964 1869 0.000480759 1869 100%
1965 1218 0.000335958 1218 100%
1966 852 0.000245134 852 100%
1967 601 0.00017703 601 100%
1968 503 0.000148886 503 100%
1969 382 0.000109918 382 100%
1970 327 0.000090669 327 100%
1971 230 0.000067009 230 100%
1972 189 0.000060134 189 100%
1973 120 0.000039776 120 100%
1974 74 0.000024342 74 100%
1975 53 0.000017553 53 100%
1976 34 0.000011205 34 100%
1977 38 0.000011963 38 100%
1978 32 0.000010082 32 100%
1979 29 0.000008717 29 100%
1980 24 0.000006968 24 100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 100%
1982 25 0.000007127 25 100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%

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