Pamela
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning all honey; literary coinage by Philip Sidney.
Pamela by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Pamela. In the US, 153 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 27,366 babies in 1954, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Pamela. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bee
Like Pamela, each of these has a bee in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Melissahoney bee1,168 in the US (2017)
- Melinahoney; form of Melissa or Melina486 in the US (2017)
- Deborahbee68 in England and Wales (2025)
- Honeysweet substance made by bees253 in England and Wales (2025)
- Melindahoney; a blend of Melissa and Belinda128 in the US (2017)
- Devorahbee; Hebrew spelling of Deborah108 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Pamela
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