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The PAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 817 27721 0 3
United States (1880 census) 33 60230 0 1
Change since 1880 +784 +32509 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 16 61914 0 1
United Kingdom 53 25936 0 1
Top States for PAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 109 26040 0.000 3
New York 97 23609 0.001 5
New Jersey 90 13729 0.001 11
Mississippi 54 5790 0.002 19
Illinois 36 43775 0.000 3
Top States for PAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 54 5790 0.002 19
New Jersey 90 13729 0.001 11
South Carolina 29 13155 0.001 7
Washington DC 3 28083 0.001 5
Arkansas 14 16255 0.001 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PAM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PAM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PAM in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PAM by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PAM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PAM surname.

Ethnic distribution of PAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 274 33.54
White (Caucasian) 272 33.29
Asian/Pacific 242 29.62
White (Hispanic) 15 1.84
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PAM surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PAM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PAM in historical publications

PAM. The name of one RIc. Pam occurs in H.R. An Austrian family of this name became naturalized here in the last century. PAISIPHTLON. From pampilion a coat of various colours, formerly worn by domestic servants. The word was most Ukely a corruption of the Fr.papillm, abuttei-fly, the gaudy hues of which were emulated by this motley costume. PAMPLIN. The same as Pamphilou.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAM.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PAM

The following words are slight variants of PAM that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.