Pamala

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pamala is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 47K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 62K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 73K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈31,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
271 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

China, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PamalaLatin(measured from records)
ปะมาละThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pamala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pamala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈31,000 est.≈1 in 44K—Pamala2
US United States7,0121 in 47K7KPamala271
GB United Kingdom≈900 est.≈1 in 73KlistedPamala47
IT Italy≈820 est.≈1 in 76K—Pamala7
BR Brazil7541 in 281K754——
CA Canada≈610 est.≈1 in 62K—Pamala33
IE Ireland≈100 est.≈1 in 50K—Pamala7
SG Singapore≈87 est.≈1 in 72K—Pamala2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pamala is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pâmala, Pamâla

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pâmala

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, Canada

    Also written Pâmala

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Pamala Stanley, b. 1952Pamala Wiepking, b. 1978Pamela, b. 1983

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Pamala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207K#3,127
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022754—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—747#10,067
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2020731—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—720#5,764
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—719#11,382
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010617—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000347—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1958314—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1959313—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1954304—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1964282—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pamala a male or female name?
Pamala is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Pamala have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Pamala in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pamala.
How common is the name Pamala?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,012 people named Pamala in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pamala

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pamala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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