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Pamela
Pronunciation	/ˈpæmələ/ PAM-ə-lə
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	unknown
Region of origin	England, 16th century
Other names
Related names	Pam

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Pamela is a feminine given name, often abbreviated to Pam.^[1] Pamela is also infrequently used as a surname.^[2]

History

Sir Philip Sidney invented the name Pamela for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, written in the late 16th century and published posthumously. The name is widely taken to mean "all sweetness", formed on the Greek words πᾶν pan ("all") and μέλι meli ("honey"),^[2]^[3] but there is no evidence regarding what meaning, if any, Sidney intended for it.^[4]

The Samuel Richardson novel Pamela in 1740 or 1741 inaugurated the use of Pamela as a given name but it was not in common usage until the 20th century.^[2] A rare early bearer of the name, Lady Edward FitzGerald (c. 1773 – 1831), although known by the first name Pamela, was born Stephanie Caroline Anne Syms^{[contradictory]}.^[5]

The name's popularity may have been hindered by the tendency to pronounce it /pəˈmiːlə/ pə-MEE-lə which was not fully superseded by the now-standard /ˈpæmələ/ PAM-ə-lə until the start of the 20th century when the name finally entered general usage.^[6] Pamelia was a commonly used version of the name in use in the Southern United States. This evolved into Permelia, a variant of the name in use since the 1700s.^[7]

Pamela was very popular in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s with the tallies of the most popular names for British newborn girls for the respective years 1934, 1944 and 1954 ranking Pamela at respectively #20, #17 and #24. Evidently less popular from the 1960s—being ranked on the respective 1964 tally at #67—the name Pamela has grown increasingly unfashionable, with a reported total of eleven newborn girls in Britain given the name in 2009.^[8] The name was similarly most used throughout the Anglosphere from the 1940s through the mid-1970s. For instance, it was among the one hundred most used names for girls in the United States between 1943 and 1976 and remained among the one thousand most used names for American girls until 2011. It has since declined in use.^[9]

Given name

People with the name or its variants include:

Pamela Adlon, (née Segall), American actress, writer and director
Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American actress, model and media personality
Pamela Barnes (1937-1975), New Zealand artist
Pamela Bellwood, American actress
Pamela J. Bjorkman, American biochemist and molecular biologist
Pamella Bordes, Indian choreographer and model
Pamela Indah Bowie [id], Indonesian actress
Pamela Branch, British crime novelist
Pamela Britton, American actress and singer
Pamela Brown, multiple people
Pamela Brooks, British writer
Pamela Bustin, American field hockey player-coach
Pamela Butchart, Scottish children's author
Pamela Carruthers, British showjumper, and showjumping course designer
Pamela Chopra, Indian playback singer and film producer
Pamela Clabburn, British museum curator and writer
Pamela Copus, American musical artist
Pamela Courson, long-term companion of Jim Morrison
Pamela Kyle Crossley, historian
Pamela Crowe, Manx politician
Pamela Cundell, British actress
Pamela Dean, American fantasy author
Pamela Des Barres (born Pamela Ann Miller), American rock and roll groupie, writer, musician, and actress
Pamela Duncan (novelist), American novelist
Pamela Duncan (actress), American actress
Pamelyn Ferdin (or "Pamela Lynn"), child actress, animal rights activist
Pamela Fitzgerald (disambiguation), multiple people
Pamela Frank, American musician
Pamela Frankau, English novelist
Pamela Franklin, British actress
Pamela Gay, American astronomer
Pamela Geller, American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator
Pamela Gemin, American writer and academic
Pamela Gidley, American actress and model
Pamela Gorkin, American mathematician
Pamela Green, English model and actress
Pamela Green (DJ), American hip hop girl group formed in 1985
Pamela Gordon (actress), American actress
Pamela Gordon (politician), Bermudian politician
Pamela Anne Gordon, Canadian model
Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere, British viscountess
Pamela Harriman, American diplomat
Pamela Hayden, American actress
Pamela Healy, American sailor
Pamela Hensley, American actress and author
Lady Pamela Hicks, British aristocrat and relative of the British royal family
Pamela Isaacs, American singer and actress
Pamela Jelimo, Kenyan middle distance runner
Pamela Hansford Johnson, English writer and critic
Pamela Jones, computer law scholar
Pamela Joyner (born 1957/58), American art collector
Pamela S. Karlan, American legal scholar
Pamela Katz, American screenwriter and novelist
Pamela M. Kilmartin, New Zealand astronomer
Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners, British parliamentarian
Pamela Klassen, scholar of religion
Pamela Knaack, German actress
Pamela Kunz, American oncologist
Pamela Kurrell, American discus thrower
Pamela Levy, Israeli artist
Pamela London, Guyanese boxer
Pamela Martin (disambiguation), multiple people
Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
Pamela Melroy, American astronaut
Pamela Morris, English publisher and teacher
Pamela Munro, American linguist
Pamela O'Malley, Irish-Spanish bohemian, educationalist and radical
Pamela Pasinetti (born 1993), Thai-Italian model and beauty pageant titleholder
Pamela Payton-Wright, American actress
Pamela Rabe, Canadian actress
Pamela Rai (born 1966), Canadian swimmer
Pamela Rambo, colorist
Pamela Ramljak, Hungarian musical artist
Pamela C. Rasmussen, American ornithologist
Pamela Reed, American actress
Pamela Ribon, American screenwriter, author, blogger and actress
Pamela Rooks, Indian film director and screenwriter
Pamela Salem, British actress
Pamela Samuelson, American lawyer and professor
Pamela Sargent, American feminist, science fiction author, and editor
Pamela Sharples, British politician
Pamela Susan Shoop, American actress and writer
Pamela Silver, American biologist
Pamela Smart, American criminal
Pamela A. Smith (born 1968), U.S. police chief
Pamela Colman Smith, British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist
Pamela Safitri [id], Indonesian actress
Pamela Jayne Soles (born 1950), American actress, commonly known as P. J. Soles
Pamela Spence, Turkish actress and singer
Pamela Springsteen, American actress and photographer
Pamela Stein, American model
Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born psychologist, writer, actress and comedian
Pamela Tiffin, American actress and model
Pamela Lyndon "P. L." Travers, Australian-British writer
Pamela Rogers Turner (born 1977), teacher and child rapist
Pamela Vitale, American murderer
Pamela Wallin, Canadian politician
Pamela Willeford, American Ambassador
Pamela Williams, American musician
Pamela Rouse Wright, American philanthropist, clubwoman, businesswoman, and jewelry designer
Pamela Wynne, British writer
Pamela Zoline, American writer and painter

Surname

Lucia Pamela, American musician

Fictional characters

Pamela, one of the Thea Sisters in Thea Stilton
Ursula Pamela Buffay, Phoebe Buffay's twin sister in NBC sitcom Friends
Pamela Andrews, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740–1741)
Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley or Poison Ivy, character in DC Comics and enemy of Batman
Pamela Voorhees, in the Friday the 13th films
Pamela Barnes Ewing, in TV series Dallas
Pamela Abbott, one of the Abbott sisters in the movie, Inventing the Abbotts
Pamela Douglas, from soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
Pamela Ibis, a recurring character from the Atelier series of video games.
Pamela Moran, a main character in Army Wives
Pamela Byrnes (later Focker), a main character in the Meet the Parents film trilogy
Pamela Beesly, from the sitcom The Office
Pamela Swynford De Beaufort, from the HBO TV series, True Blood.

References

^ "Pam". Behind the Name.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Pamela – name meaning and origin". Think Baby Names. thinkbabynames.com. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
^ "Pamela". Behind the Name.
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press.
^ "Pamela Fitzgerald". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^{[dead link‍]}
^ Norman, Teresa (2003). A World of Baby Names. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group. p. 141. ISBN 0-399-52894-6.
^ Lorenz, Brenna (September 1989) [9], "Origins of Original Given Names from the Southern United States", Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 37 (3): 201–230{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ "Top 100 Drop Outs: Where are they now?". British Baby Names.
^ "Beyond the Top 1000 Names". www.ssa.gov. United States Social Security Administration. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.

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[behind-pam-1] "Pam". Behind the Name.

[think-2] "Pamela – name meaning and origin". Think Baby Names. thinkbabynames.com. Retrieved 2008-03-24.

[behind-3] "Pamela". Behind the Name.

[4] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press.

[5] "Pamela Fitzgerald". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^{[dead link‍]}

[500_Number_One_Hits-6] Norman, Teresa (2003). A World of Baby Names. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group. p. 141. ISBN 0-399-52894-6.

[7] Lorenz, Brenna (September 1989) [9], "Origins of Original Given Names from the Southern United States", Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 37 (3): 201–230{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[8] "Top 100 Drop Outs: Where are they now?". British Baby Names.

[9] "Beyond the Top 1000 Names". www.ssa.gov. United States Social Security Administration. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.

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-The [[Samuel Richardson]] novel ''[[Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded|Pamela]]'' in 1740 or 1741 inaugurated the use of Pamela as a given name but it was not in common usage until the 20th century.<ref name=think /> A rare early bearer of the name, [[Lady Edward FitzGerald]] (c. 1773 – 1831), although known by the first name Pamela, was born Stephanie Caroline Anne Syms.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Pamela Fitzgerald  |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101009580/ |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref>
+The [[Samuel Richardson]] novel ''[[Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded|Pamela]]'' in 1740 or 1741 inaugurated the use of Pamela as a given name but it was not in common usage until the 20th century.<ref name=think /> A rare early bearer of the name, [[Lady Edward FitzGerald]] (c. 1773 – 1831), although known by the first name Pamela, was born Stephanie Caroline Anne Syms{{Contradictory inline|Lady_Edward_FitzGerald|reason=The article about her claims it was her daughter's name|date=May 2023}}.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Pamela Fitzgerald  |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101009580/ |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}{{dead link|date=May 2023}}</ref>
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-}}</ref> Pamela was very popular in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s with the tallies of the most popular names for British newborn girls for the respective years 1934, 1944 and 1954 ranking Pamela at respectively #20, #17 and #24. Evidently less popular from the 1960s—being ranked on the respective 1964 tally at #67—the name Pamela has grown increasingly unfashionable, with a reported total of eleven newborn girls in Britain given the name in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/top-100-drop-outs-where-are-they-now-.html |title=Top 100 Drop Outs: Where are they now?|publisher=British Baby Names}}</ref>
+Pamelia was a commonly used version of the name in use in the Southern United States. This evolved into Permelia, a variant of the name in use since the 1700s.<ref>{{Citation
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+Pamela was very popular in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s with the tallies of the most popular names for British newborn girls for the respective years 1934, 1944 and 1954 ranking Pamela at respectively #20, #17 and #24. Evidently less popular from the 1960s—being ranked on the respective 1964 tally at #67—the name Pamela has grown increasingly unfashionable, with a reported total of eleven newborn girls in Britain given the name in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/top-100-drop-outs-where-are-they-now-.html |title=Top 100 Drop Outs: Where are they now?|publisher=British Baby Names}}</ref> The name was similarly most used throughout the [[Anglosphere]] from the 1940s through the mid-1970s. For instance, it was among the one hundred most used names for girls in the United States between 1943 and 1976 and remained among the one thousand most used names for American girls until 2011. It has since declined in use.<ref>{{cite web
+ | url= https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
+ | title= Beyond the Top 1000 Names
+ | last=
+ | first=
+ | date= 7 May 2022
+ | website= www.ssa.gov
+ | publisher= United States Social Security Administration
+ | access-date= 7 July 2022
+ | quote = }}</ref>
 ==Given name==
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+* [[Pamela Adlon]], (née Segall), American actress, writer and director
-* [[Pamela Anderson]]
+* [[Pamela Anderson]], Canadian-American actress, model and media personality
-* [[Pamela Bellwood]]
+* [[Pamela Barnes (artist)|Pamela Barnes]] (1937-1975), New Zealand artist
-* [[Pamela J. Bjorkman]]
+* [[Pamela Bellwood]], American actress
-* [[Pamella Bordes]]
+* [[Pamela J. Bjorkman]], American biochemist and molecular biologist
+* [[Pamella Bordes]], Indian choreographer and model
+* {{ill|Pamela Indah Bowie|id}}, Indonesian actress
 * [[Pamela Branch]], British crime novelist
-* [[Pamela Britton]]
+* [[Pamela Britton]], American actress and singer
-* [[Pamela Brown (disambiguation)]], multiple people
+* [[Pamela Brown (disambiguation)|Pamela Brown]], multiple people
-* [[Pamela Brooks]]
+* [[Pamela Brooks]], British writer
-* [[Pamela Bustin]]
+* [[Pamela Bustin]], American field hockey player-coach
 * [[Pamela Butchart]], Scottish children's author
-* [[Pamela Carruthers]]
+* [[Pamela Carruthers]], British showjumper, and showjumping course designer
-* [[Pamela Chopra]]
+* [[Pamela Chopra]], Indian playback singer and film producer
-* [[Pamela Clabburn]]
+* [[Pamela Clabburn]], British museum curator and writer
-* [[Randy and Pamela Copus|Pamela Copus]]
+* [[Randy and Pamela Copus|Pamela Copus]], American musical artist
-* [[Pamela Courson]]
+* [[Pamela Courson]], long-term companion of Jim Morrison
-* [[Pamela Kyle Crossley]]
+* [[Pamela Kyle Crossley]], historian
-* [[Pamela Crowe]]
+* [[Pamela Crowe]], Manx politician
-* [[Pamela Cundell]]
+* [[Pamela Cundell]], British actress
-* [[Pamela Dean]]
+* [[Pamela Dean]], American fantasy author
-* [[Pamela Des Barres]], born Pamela Ann Miller
+* [[Pamela Des Barres]] (born Pamela Ann Miller), American rock and roll groupie, writer, musician, and actress
-* [[Pamela Duncan (novelist)]]
+* [[Pamela Duncan (novelist)]], American novelist
-* [[Pamela Duncan (actress)]]
+* [[Pamela Duncan (actress)]], American actress
 * [[Pamelyn Ferdin|Pamelyn Ferdin (or "Pamela Lynn")]], child actress, animal rights activist
 * [[Pamela Fitzgerald (disambiguation)]], multiple people
-* [[Pamela Frank]]
+* [[Pamela Frank]], American musician
-* [[Pamela Frankau]]
+* [[Pamela Frankau]], English novelist
-* [[Pamela Franklin]]
+* [[Pamela Franklin]], British actress
 * [[Pamela Gay]], American astronomer
+* [[Pamela Geller]], American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator
-* [[Pamela Geller]]
-* [[Pamela Gemin]]
+* [[Pamela Gemin]], American writer and academic
-* [[Pamela Gidley]]
+* [[Pamela Gidley]], American actress and model
 * [[Pamela Gorkin]], American mathematician
-* [[Pamela Green]]
+* [[Pamela Green]], English model and actress
-* [[DJ Pamela Green|Pamela Green (DJ)]]
+* [[DJ Pamela Green|Pamela Green (DJ)]], American hip hop girl group formed in 1985
 * [[Pamela Gordon (actress)]], American actress
 * [[Pamela Gordon (politician)]], Bermudian politician
 * [[Pamela Anne Gordon]], Canadian model
-* [[Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere]]
+* [[Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere]], British viscountess
-* [[Pamela Harriman]]
+* [[Pamela Harriman]], American diplomat
-* [[Pamela Hayden]]
+* [[Pamela Hayden]], American actress
-* [[Pamela Healy]]
+* [[Pamela Healy]], American sailor
-* [[Pamela Hensley]]
+* [[Pamela Hensley]], American actress and author
-* [[Lady Pamela Hicks]]
+* [[Lady Pamela Hicks]], British aristocrat and relative of the British royal family
-* [[Pamela Isaacs]]
+* [[Pamela Isaacs]], American singer and actress
-* [[Pamela Jelimo]]
+* [[Pamela Jelimo]], Kenyan middle distance runner
-* [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]]
+* [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]], English writer and critic
-* [[Pamela Jones]]
+* [[Pamela Jones]], computer law scholar
 * [[Pamela Joyner]] (born 1957/58), American art collector
-* [[Pamela S. Karlan]]
+* [[Pamela S. Karlan]], American legal scholar
-* [[Pamela Katz]]
+* [[Pamela Katz]], American screenwriter and novelist
-* [[Pamela M. Kilmartin]]
+* [[Pamela M. Kilmartin]], New Zealand astronomer
-* [[Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners]]
+* [[Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners]], British parliamentarian
-* [[Pamela Klassen]]
+* [[Pamela Klassen]], scholar of religion
-* [[Pamela Knaack]]
+* [[Pamela Knaack]], German actress
-* [[Pamela Kunz]]
+* [[Pamela Kunz]], American oncologist
-* [[Pamela Kurrell]]
+* [[Pamela Kurrell]], American discus thrower
-* [[Pamela Levy]]
+* [[Pamela Levy]], Israeli artist
-* [[Pamela London]]
+* [[Pamela London]], Guyanese boxer
 * [[Pamela Martin (disambiguation)]], multiple people
-* [[Pamela Sue Martin]]
+* [[Pamela Sue Martin]], American actress
-* [[Pamela Melroy]]
+* [[Pamela Melroy]], American astronaut
-* [[Pamela Morris]]
+* [[Pamela Morris]], English publisher and teacher
-* [[Pamela Munro]]
+* [[Pamela Munro]], American linguist
 * [[Pamela O'Malley]], Irish-Spanish bohemian, educationalist and radical
+* [[Pamela Pasinetti]] (born 1993), Thai-Italian model and beauty pageant titleholder
-* [[Pamela Payton-Wright]]
-* [[Pamela Rabe]]
+* [[Pamela Payton-Wright]], American actress
-* [[Pamela Rambo]]
+* [[Pamela Rabe]], Canadian actress
-* [[Pamela Ramljak]]
+* [[Pamela Rai]] (born 1966), Canadian swimmer
-* [[Pamela C. Rasmussen]]
+* [[Pamela Rambo]], colorist
-* [[Pamela Reed]]
+* [[Pamela Ramljak]], Hungarian musical artist
-* [[Pamela Ribon]]
+* [[Pamela C. Rasmussen]], American ornithologist
-* [[Pamela Rooks]]
+* [[Pamela Reed]], American actress
+* [[Pamela Ribon]], American screenwriter, author, blogger and actress
-* [[Pamela Salem]]
-* [[Pamela Samuelson]]
+* [[Pamela Rooks]], Indian film director and screenwriter
-* [[Pamela Sargent]]
+* [[Pamela Salem]], British actress
-* [[Pamela Segall]]
+* [[Pamela Samuelson]], American lawyer and professor
+* [[Pamela Sargent]], American feminist, science fiction author, and editor
-* [[Pamela Sharples]]
-* [[Pamela Susan Shoop]]
+* [[Pamela Sharples]], British politician
-* [[Pamela Silver]]
+* [[Pamela Susan Shoop]], American actress and writer
-* [[Pamela Smart]]
+* [[Pamela Silver]], American biologist
-* [[Pamela Colman Smith]]
+* [[Pamela Smart]], American criminal
-* [[Pamela Spence]]
+* [[Pamela A. Smith]] (born 1968), U.S. police chief
+* [[Pamela Colman Smith]], British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist
-* [[Pamela Springsteen]]
+* {{ill|Pamela Safitri|id}}, Indonesian actress
-* [[Pamela Stein]]
+* [[P. J. Soles|Pamela Jayne Soles]] (born 1950), American actress, commonly known as P. J. Soles
-* [[Pamela Stephenson]]
-* [[Pamela Tiffin]]
+* [[Pamela Spence]], Turkish actress and singer
+* [[Pamela Springsteen]], American actress and photographer
-* [[P. L. Travers|Pamela Lyndon Travers]]
+* [[Pamela Stein]], American model
+* [[Pamela Stephenson]], New Zealand-born psychologist, writer, actress and comedian
+* [[Pamela Tiffin]], American actress and model
+* [[P. L. Travers|Pamela Lyndon "P. L." Travers]], Australian-British writer
 * [[Pamela Rogers Turner]] (born 1977), teacher and child rapist
-* [[Pamela Vitale]]
+* [[Pamela Vitale]], American murderer
-* [[Pamela Wallin]]
+* [[Pamela Wallin]], Canadian politician
-* [[Pamela Willeford]]
+* [[Pamela Willeford]], American Ambassador
-* [[Pamela Williams]]
+* [[Pamela Williams]], American musician
+* [[Pamela Rouse Wright]], American philanthropist, clubwoman, businesswoman, and jewelry designer
-* [[Pamela Wynne]]
-* [[Pamela Zoline]]
+* [[Pamela Wynne]], British writer
+* [[Pamela Zoline]], American writer and painter
 {{div col end}}
 ==Surname==
-* [[Lucia Pamela]]
+* [[Lucia Pamela]], American musician
 ==Fictional characters==
-* Pamela, one of the Thea Sisters in [[Thea Stilton|''Thea Stilton'']]
+* Pamela, one of the Thea Sisters in ''[[Thea Stilton]]''
+* Ursula ''Pamela'' Buffay, [[Phoebe Buffay]]'s twin sister in NBC sitcom ''[[Friends]]''
 * Pamela Andrews, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel ''[[Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded]]'' (1740–1741)
-* Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley or [[Poison Ivy (comics)|Poison Ivy]], character in DC Comics
+* Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley or [[Poison Ivy (comics)|Poison Ivy]], character in [[DC Comics]] and [[Batman rogues gallery|enemy]] of [[Batman]]
 * [[Pamela Voorhees]], in the ''[[Friday the 13th (franchise)|Friday the 13th]]'' films
 * [[Pamela Barnes Ewing]], in TV series ''Dallas''
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 * [[Pamela Moran]], a main character in ''[[Army Wives]]''
 * Pamela Byrnes (later Focker), a main character in the ''[[Meet the Parents]]'' film trilogy
+* [[Pam Beesly|Pamela Beesly]], from the sitcom ''[[The Office (American TV series)|The Office]]''
+* [[Pamela Swynford De Beaufort]], from the HBO TV series, ''[[True Blood]]''.
 ==See also==
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 [[Category:English given names]]
 [[Category:English feminine given names]]
-[[Category:English given names invented by fiction writers]]
+[[Category:Feminine given names]]
+[[Category:English-language feminine given names]]