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Last year (2022), 13 baby girls were given the name Pamela in Poland. 4 other girls received it as a middle name. As of January this year, there have been 2796 women with this name as their first name, 796 additional women bear it as a middle name.
Also used among the English Romani community in the 1800s:
https://rtfhs.org.uk/the_rtfhs_baptism_index/ -- SMITH Pamela
https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2014/05/victorian-romany-names.html
Pamela is also used in Poland. It came with a wave of other names from the English-speaking world which had never been used before, sometime at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. Names like Linda, Jessica/Dżesika, Vanessa/Wanes(s)a, Nicola/Nicole/Nikola, Amanda, Samanta, Bryan/Brajan, Justin/Dżastin, Dustin/Dastin, Kevin/Kewin, Alan etc. Which were really trendy but also fell in popularity quite quickly after sudden emergence. They are considered kind of pretentious by a lot of Polish people, and so is the case with Pamela. Actually I haven't heard a positive opinion about it from any Polish person in real life, even though it doesn't feel as foreign as Jessica for example, whose spelling is not in line with Polish phonetics unlike Pamela. Pamela is easily pronounceable here, easy to be nicknamed, and sounds a bit similar to Amelia, so you'd think perhaps it would become more familiar over time, but it just didn't, as it seems. In fact it has always been a lot less popular than Jessica/Dżesika. Also I know a couple Polish Jessicas but not even a single Pamela. I don't think there are official Polish name popularity data from that far back, but I believe this name was at its highest here in the early 90's. Most people associate it with Anderson, which I guess is also why it became kind of trendy for a while in the first place.
Possible nicknames include Mela, Melcia, Melka, Melusia, Melunia, Mila, Milka, Milusia, Milunia, Pam, Pama, Pami, Pamelka, Pamelcia, Pamisia.
Last year (2020) 18 baby girls in Poland were named Pamela, and 4 got it as a middle name. 2776 women in the whole Polish population had this name last year, plus 786 with this name as a middle.
Also used in Romania (you'll find numerous bearers on social media).
In 2018, 56 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Pamela who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 78th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
This is also used in Italy where it is pronounced pa-MEH-la.
In 2015 were born 36 babies named Pamela.
The name Pamela was given to 166 girls born in the US in 2015.

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