Given name
Pamella
“very strange”·“a woman who is as sweet as honey”
Pamella is a variant of Pamela. Interpretations include “very strange” and “a woman who is as sweet as honey” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pamella is a variant of Pamela. Interpretations include “very strange” and “a woman who is as sweet as honey” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Pamella is a variant of Pamela. An origin associated with Pamela is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Pamella is a variant of Pamela. The history of Pamela gives this family its wider story. Philip Sidney created Pamela in the Elizabethan period. Samuel Richardson later used it for the heroine of his 1740 novel; Henry Fielding’s response, Joseph Andrews, helped make the name part of an eighteenth-century literary conversation.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Pamella through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,166
- 0 boys · 3,166 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 149 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 149 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,994 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pamella’s family of names
Pamella has a related form in Pamela.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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