Pam
Pam is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 125th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19593,677 births
- Best rank
- #125in 1959
- Since 1915
- 33,125people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,125 girls have been named Pam in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 3,677 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 3,677 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1960s alone account for 52%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1959, its biggest year
Pam was the 125th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Pam
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Barbpeak 1960
- Bevpeak 1959
- Debbiepeak 1959
- Debbipeak 1958
- Debbypeak 1959
- Debpeak 1958
- Debipeak 1958
- Terriepeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.