Pamella

Pamella is an English name and a variant spelling of Pamela, a name almost certainly coined by the poet Philip Sidney for a character in his prose romance Arcadia, written in the 1580s. The name's intended meaning is uncertain, though Sidney may have constructed it from Greek elements suggesting sweetness or honey. It gained widespread popularity after Samuel Richardson used Pamela as the heroine of his influential 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. Related forms include Pamela, Pamella, and the short form Pam.