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Pamela
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Origin and Meaning
The English poet Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) invented the name for his novel 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
One theory is that he intended it to derive from Greek pān = 'all' and Greek méli = 'honey' or pam-mélās = 'all black' [2] [3] [5]
Related Names
| Pam | ♀ |   |
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| Pamela | ♀ |  |
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| Paméla | ♀ | |
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| Pamella | ♀ | |
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Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Pameluson |
|
Female
| Pameludóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Pamela |
| Genitive: | Pamelas |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Pamela |
| Genitive: | Pamelan |
| Partitive: | Pamelaa |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Pamela |
| Accusative: | Pamelu |
| Dative: | Pamelu |
| Genitive: | Pamelu |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Pamela |
| Genitive: | Pamelas |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Pamela |
| Genitive: | Pamelas |
Name Day
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18 September |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 444 people were named Pamela (percentage of first or only given name: 43 %) [8]
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[9] |
|
1089 | 1642 | 1089 | 1642 | 0 | 0 |
| Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
636 | n.a. |
636 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[11] |
|
152 | n.a. |
152 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Iceland[12] |
  |
17 | 22 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[13] |
|
8 | 8 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[14] |
|
193 | n.a. |
193 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no