Recorded 1926–2001 · United States
Pamala was most popular in 1958, when 314 American babies were given the name — ranking #976 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 7,357 people named Pamala.
Pamala first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1926, which makes it about 99 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 67 of the 100 years since. It was last recorded in 2001.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 7,357 American births named Pamala 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 6,182 are estimated to be alive today.
Pamala 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 Pamala is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 7,357 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% 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 6,182 Americans named Pamala are alive today — 84% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 65 years old, and half are between 58 and 71.
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