Entry № 7953 · Greek origin

Pandora Pandora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pan-DOR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"All gifts, all-giving"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "all gifts, all-giving".

Pandora (Πανδώρα) comes from the Greek pan (all) and dōron (gift) — meaning "all gifts" or "all-giving." In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first mortal woman, created by Hephaestus and gifted by all the gods — including the famous jar (later mistranslated as "box") whose opening released all evils into the world but left hope inside.

Pandora is rising as a girls' name in the U.S.

All gifts, all-giving — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Πανδώρα
Transliteration
Pandṓra
Pronunciation
/ pænˈdɔːr.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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What Pandora is built from.

Pandora is a compound name. Its parts are dōron — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

dōron
Greek
“gift”

Where Pandora stands.

Pandora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pandoras before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Pandora
First mortal woman of Greek mythology.
Hesiod, c. 700 BCE

Names connected to Pandora.

The number behind Pandora.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pandora reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.