Pam
The girl's name Pam has been in the national records since 1915, with 33,148 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1996. About 28,000 Pams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 33,148
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 125th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 33,125 / 23
How old the living Pams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 33,148 babies given the name since 1915, about 28,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Pams
- Pam Grier (born 1949)American actress
- Pam Bondi (born 1965)American attorney and politician
- Pam Shriver (born 1962)American tennis player
- Pam Ferris (born 1948)British actress
- Pam Dawber (born 1951)American actress
- Pam Kilborn (born 1939)Australian athlete
- Pam Tillis (born 1957)American country music singer-songwriter and actress
- Pam Teeguarden (born 1951)American tennis player
People named Pam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Pam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pam is most concentrated in South Dakota (2.0×), Washington (1.7×), North Dakota (1.7×), Kansas (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Pam peaked:
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Pam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.