girls:
7.4k births since 1926
#1899 (67th percentile)
overall:
7.4k births since 1926
#3145 (59th percentile)
The name Pamala is the #3,145 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,357 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 59.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,899 (66.8% percentile) for all time with 7,357 births since 1926.
Pamala first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (first recorded for girls in 1926). Birth data for Pamala is available in 67 out of the 76 years between 1926 and 2001. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Pamala reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #487) with 152 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 153 births per million (ranked 36.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pamala".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Pamala. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Pamala is pronounced as PA-muh-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is puh-MA-luh, at 15.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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