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Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
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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
Male
Pameluson
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Female
Pameludóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Pamela
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Genitive: |
Pamelas
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Pamela
|
Genitive: |
Pamelan
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Partitive: |
Pamelaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Pamela
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Accusative: |
Pamelu
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Dative: |
Pamelu
|
Genitive: |
Pamelu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Pamela
|
Genitive: |
Pamelas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Pamela
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Genitive: |
Pamelas
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Name Day
![Finland (Swedish Language)](https://www.nordicnames.de/img/flags/fi.png) Finland (Swedish Language)
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18 September
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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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [9][11][14][10]
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