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Pamela Pronunciation PAM -ə-lə Gender Female Word/name unknown Region of origin England , 16th centuryRelated names Pam
Pamela is a feminine given name , often abbreviated to Pam .[1] surname .[2]
History [ edit ]
Sir Philip Sidney invented the name Pamela for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia pan ("all") and μέλι meli ("honey"),[2] [3] [4]
The Samuel Richardson novel Pamela [2] Lady Edward FitzGerald (c. 1773 – 1831), although known by the first name Pamela, was born Stephanie Caroline Anne Syms[contradictory .[5]
The name's popularity may have been hindered by the tendency to pronounce it pə-MEE -lə PAM -ə-lə[6] [7]
Pamela was very popular in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s with the tallies of the most popular names for British newborn girls for the respective years 1934, 1944 and 1954 ranking Pamela at respectively #20, #17 and #24. Evidently less popular from the 1960s—being ranked on the respective 1964 tally at #67—the name Pamela has grown increasingly unfashionable, with a reported total of eleven newborn girls in Britain given the name in 2009.[8] Anglosphere from the 1940s through the mid-1970s. For instance, it was among the one hundred most used names for girls in the United States between 1943 and 1976 and remained among the one thousand most used names for American girls until 2011. It has since declined in use.[9]
Given name [ edit ]
People with the name or its variants include:
Pamela Adlon , (née Segall), American actress, writer and director
Pamela Anderson , Canadian-American actress, model and media personality
Pamela Bellwood , American actress
Pamela J. Bjorkman , American biochemist and molecular biologist
Pamella Bordes , Indian choreographer and model
Pamela Indah Bowie [id , Indonesian actress
Pamela Branch , British crime novelist
Pamela Britton , American actress and singer
Pamela Brown , multiple people
Pamela Brooks , British writer
Pamela Bustin , American field hockey player-coach
Pamela Butchart , Scottish children's author
Pamela Carruthers , British showjumper, and showjumping course designer
Pamela Chopra , Indian playback singer and film producer
Pamela Clabburn , British museum curator and writer
Pamela Copus , American musical artist
Pamela Courson , long-term companion of Jim Morrison
Pamela Kyle Crossley , historian
Pamela Crowe , Manx politician
Pamela Cundell , British actress
Pamela Dean , American fantasy author
Pamela Des Barres (born Pamela Ann Miller), American rock and roll groupie, writer, musician, and actress
Pamela Duncan (novelist) , American novelist
Pamela Duncan (actress) , American actress
Pamelyn Ferdin (or "Pamela Lynn") , child actress, animal rights activist
Pamela Fitzgerald (disambiguation) , multiple people
Pamela Frank , American musician
Pamela Frankau , English novelist
Pamela Franklin , British actress
Pamela Gay , American astronomer
Pamela Geller , American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator
Pamela Gemin , American writer and academic
Pamela Gidley , American actress and model
Pamela Gorkin , American mathematician
Pamela Green , English model and actress
Pamela Green (DJ ) , American hip hop girl group formed in 1985
Pamela Gordon (actress) , American actress
Pamela Gordon (politician) , Bermudian politician
Pamela Anne Gordon , Canadian model
Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere , British viscountess
Pamela Harriman , American diplomat
Pamela Hayden , American actress
Pamela Healy , American sailor
Pamela Hensley , American actress and author
Lady Pamela Hicks , British aristocrat and relative of the British royal family
Pamela Isaacs , American singer and actress
Pamela Jelimo , Kenyan middle distance runner
Pamela Hansford Johnson , English writer and critic
Pamela Jones , computer law scholar
Pamela Joyner (born 1957/58), American art collector
Pamela S. Karlan , American legal scholar
Pamela Katz , American screenwriter and novelist
Pamela M. Kilmartin , New Zealand astronomer
Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners , British parliamentarian
Pamela Klassen , scholar of religion
Pamela Knaack , German actress
Pamela Kunz , American oncologist
Pamela Kurrell , American discus thrower
Pamela Levy , Israeli artist
Pamela London , Guyanese boxer
Pamela Martin (disambiguation) , multiple people
Pamela Sue Martin , American actress
Pamela Melroy , American astronaut
Pamela Morris , English publisher and teacher
Pamela Munro , American linguist
Pamela O'Malley , Irish-Spanish bohemian, educationalist and radical
Pamela Pasinetti (born 1993), Thai-Italian model and beauty pageant titleholder
Pamela Payton-Wright , American actress
Pamela Rabe , Canadian actress
Pamela Rambo , colorist
Pamela Ramljak , Hungarian musical artist
Pamela C. Rasmussen , American ornithologist
Pamela Reed , American actress
Pamela Ribon , American screenwriter, author, blogger and actress
Pamela Rooks , Indian film director and screenwriter
Pamela Salem , British actress
Pamela Samuelson , American lawyer and professor
Pamela Sargent , American feminist, science fiction author, and editor
Pamela Sarkar , West Bengali Singer
Pamela Sharples , British politician
Pamela Susan Shoop , American actress and writer
Pamela Silver , American biologist
Pamela Smart , American criminal
Pamela A. Smith (born 1968), U.S. police chief
Pamela Colman Smith , British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist
Pamela Safitri [id , Indonesian actress
Pamela Spence , Turkish actress and singer
Pamela Springsteen , American actress and photographer
Pamela Stein , American model
Pamela Stephenson , New Zealand-born psychologist, writer, actress and comedian
Pamela Tiffin , American actress and model
Pamela Lyndon "P. L." Travers , Australian-British writer
Pamela Rogers Turner (born 1977), teacher and child rapist
Pamela Vitale , American murderer
Pamela Wallin , Canadian politician
Pamela Willeford , American Ambassador
Pamela Williams , American musician
Pamela Rouse Wright , American philanthropist, clubwoman, businesswoman, and jewelry designer
Pamela Wynne , British writer
Pamela Zoline , American writer and painter
Surname [ edit ]
Fictional characters [ edit ]
Pamela, one of the Thea Sisters in Thea Stilton
Pamela Andrews, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley or Poison Ivy , character in DC Comics and enemy of Batman
Pamela Voorhees , in the Friday the 13th
Pamela Barnes Ewing , in TV series Dallas
Pamela Abbott, one of the Abbott sisters in the movie, Inventing the Abbotts
Pamela Douglas , from soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
Pamela Ibis, a recurring character from the Atelier series
Pamela Moran , a main character in Army Wives
Pamela Byrnes (later Focker), a main character in the Meet the Parents
Pamela Beesly , from the sitcom The Office
Pamela Swynford De Beaufort , from the HBO TV series, True Blood
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Pamela" . Behind the Name .
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names . Oxford University Press.
^ "Pamela Fitzgerald" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .[dead link
^ Norman, Teresa (2003). A World of Baby Names 141 . ISBN 0-399-52894-6
^ Lorenz, Brenna (September 1989) [9 ], "Origins of Original Given Names from the Southern United States" , Names: A Journal of Onomastics , 37 3 ): 201–230 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: date and year (link )
^ "Top 100 Drop Outs: Where are they now?" . British Baby Names.
^ "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" . www.ssa.gov . United States Social Security Administration. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022 .
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