Girl
Pam
Rooted in Greek, Pam is a girl's name that means "Greek pan (all) + meli (honey), all sweetness". It seems to have quietly disappeared from birth records after the 1960s. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. In total, about 33,148 American babies have carried this name since 1900.
EtymologyShort for Pamela, coined by poet Philip Sidney
GreekGreek "pan" (all) + "meli" (honey) – "all sweetness"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
5
1920s
7
1930s
116
1940s
3,356
1950s
11,242
1960s
17,126
1970s
1,126
1980s
144
1990s
26
2000s
0
2010s
0
Peaked in the 1960s · 33,148 total U.S. births since 1900