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Pandora

#4,525 in 2025Girls' name

All gifts

Pandora has been given to 3,126 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #4,525 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Pandora, 2025

1 in 107,000

Pandora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pandora: meaning, origin, and history

All gifts

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pandora means

Pandora means “all gifts”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,126 girls were recorded with the name Pandora between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 132 in 1952; its best national rank was #783 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,662 in 2020 to #4,525 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,080 in 2015 to #4,525 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Pandora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,525
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pandora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pandora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pandoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pandora was born before 1970 — so the typical Pandora is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,902
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (660).

Is Pandora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−649
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−863
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,445
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.5%
Peak was 1952 (132)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#783
1952

Spellings of Pandora

Pandora is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 97.1% against Pandora's 0.35%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pandora is used

Across 1910–2025, Pandora was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 141,278 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pandora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pandora around the world

Where Pandora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • France
    1986–2022
    #6,439
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2005–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Pandora

People whose public names include Pandora, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pandora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,525
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 863
Best rank ever
#783
1952
Peak year
1952
132 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,126
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Pandora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Pandora

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pandora, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Pandora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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