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How popular is “Pamela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pamela” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pamela” 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 “Pamela” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pamela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pamela” 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
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 100%
1912 17 0.000017205 17 100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 100%
1915 22 0.000012006 22 100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 18 0.000008291 18 100%
1919 22 0.000010425 22 100%
1920 27 0.000011933 27 100%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 100%
1922 38 0.0000166 38 100%
1923 50 0.000021716 50 100%
1924 51 0.000021414 51 100%
1925 75 0.000032143 75 100%
1926 76 0.000033102 76 100%
1927 67 0.000028887 67 100%
1928 100 0.000044229 100 100%
1929 110 0.000050179 110 100%
1930 94 0.00004228 94 100%
1931 99 0.000047045 99 100%
1932 96 0.00004547 96 100%
1933 108 0.000054015 108 100%
1934 147 0.000070781 147 100%
1935 194 0.000092827 194 100%
1936 220 0.000105893 220 100%
1937 264 0.000123905 264 100%
1938 314 0.000141916 314 100%
1939 337 0.000152943 337 100%
1940 631 0.000274028 631 100%
1941 1475 0.000605395 1468 7 99%
1942 2641 0.000966755 2632 9 99%
1943 4860 0.001721842 4839 21 99%
1944 6227 0.002314802 6204 23 99%
1945 6183 0.002330648 6169 14 100%
1946 9392 0.002939311 9367 25 99%
1947 12426 0.003449442 12398 28 100%
1948 14309 0.004144511 14281 28 100%
1949 15155 0.004348916 15132 23 100%
1950 16229 0.004632412 16202 27 100%
1951 18597 0.005048403 18570 27 100%
1952 20911 0.005505785 20880 31 100%
1953 25791 0.006692627 25759 32 100%
1954 27399 0.006882946 27362 37 100%
1955 26727 0.006656655 26689 38 100%
1956 26968 0.00654081 26927 41 100%
1957 25062 0.0059641 25014 48 100%
1958 25338 0.006129315 25280 58 100%
1959 24750 0.005952392 24712 38 100%
1960 22144 0.005331003 22091 53 100%
1961 21738 0.005247808 21690 48 100%
1962 21306 0.005279811 21271 35 100%
1963 20651 0.00521727 20588 63 99%
1964 19864 0.005109573 19824 40 100%
1965 17504 0.004828092 17468 36 100%
1966 16288 0.004686311 16250 38 100%
1967 15417 0.004541228 15368 49 99%
1968 14072 0.004165269 14032 40 99%
1969 13416 0.003860361 13356 60 99%
1970 12957 0.003592666 12906 51 99%
1971 10192 0.00296939 10149 43 99%
1972 7492 0.002383714 7471 21 99%
1973 5833 0.00193345 5813 20 99%
1974 5293 0.001741119 5272 21 99%
1975 4194 0.00138902 4177 17 99%
1976 3384 0.001115249 3364 20 99%
1977 2845 0.000895642 2831 14 99%
1978 2698 0.000850066 2690 8 99%
1979 3378 0.001015329 3365 13 99%
1980 3542 0.001028304 3535 7 100%
1981 3894 0.001125637 3882 12 99%
1982 3562 0.001015404 3546 16 99%
1983 3040 0.000877766 3030 10 99%
1984 2650 0.000759583 2642 8 99%
1985 2480 0.000694851 2469 11 99%
1986 2023 0.000568725 2016 7 99%
1987 1794 0.000497557 1783 11 99%
1988 1517 0.00041055 1510 7 99%
1989 1343 0.000349335 1331 12 98%
1990 1205 0.000304872 1194 11 98%
1991 1092 0.00028034 1085 7 99%
1992 925 0.000240806 920 5 99%
1993 813 0.000215634 806 7 98%
1994 748 0.000201202 748 100%
1995 687 0.000187594 687 100%
1996 814 0.000223185 814 100%
1997 770 0.00021237 770 100%
1998 714 0.000194116 714 100%
1999 660 0.000178675 655 5 98%
2000 607 0.000160586 607 100%
2001 578 0.000154405 578 100%
2002 530 0.000141776 530 100%
2003 673 0.000176997 673 100%
2004 545 0.000142636 540 5 98%
2005 457 0.00011886 457 100%
2006 568 0.000143573 568 100%
2007 516 0.000129075 516 100%
2008 455 0.000115756 455 100%
2009 331 0.000086645 331 100%
2010 258 0.00006981 258 100%
2011 266 0.000072721 266 100%
2012 215 0.000058785 215 100%
2013 205 0.000056231 205 100%
2014 185 0.000049914 185 100%
2015 167 0.000045124 167 100%
2016 183 0.000049881 183 100%
2017 155 0.000043342 155 100%
2018 136 0.000038681 136 100%
2019 146 0.000042064 146 100%
2020 123 0.00003682 123 100%
2021 112 0.000033058 112 100%
2022 95 0.00002808 95 100%
2023 102 0.000030805 102 100%
2024 88 0.000026438 88 100%

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