Recorded 1915–1996 · United States
Pam was most popular in 1959, when 3,677 American babies were given the name — ranking #238 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 33,148 people named Pam.
Pam first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1915, which makes it about 110 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 65 of the 111 years since. It was last recorded in 1996.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 33,148 American births named Pam between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 27,983 are estimated to be alive today.
Pam was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Across the whole record Pam is a girl’s name — 99.9% of the 33,148 Americans given it were girls and 0.1% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 27,983 Americans named Pam are alive today — 84% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 66 years old, and half are between 63 and 68. That is a narrow band: Pam arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org