Meaning not yet researched.
Pandora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #784 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #784 in 1952; #4,526 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pandora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,526 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #784.
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Pandora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #784 in 1952 · most girls in one year: 132 (1952).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Pandora, making it the 4,526th most common girls’ name of the year, down 650 places from #3,876 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 39 girls named Pandora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #784, reached in 1952. That year also had the most girls given the name: 132. For comparison, it was #3,080 in 2015 and #2,869 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pandora in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 3,126 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 660 babies named Pandora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 410 US girls were named Pandora; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
The open nickname list we use links it to Dora.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,876 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,271 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,863 | — | — |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,139 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,559 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,678 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,638 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,409 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,528 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,610 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,868 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,288 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,734 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,815 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,403 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,508 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,491 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,265 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,858 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,364 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,298 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,002 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,216 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1965 | 78 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1964 | 88 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1960 | 92 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1956 | 86 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1954 | 77 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1952 | 132 | #784 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,742 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,195 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,093 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,458 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,327 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).