Pandora — #3817 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Pandora

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,094 babies named Pandora between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pandora currently holds the #3817 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1952, when 132 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pandora performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 660 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Pandora shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 144 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Pandora in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pandora in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,094 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.