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
Grammatical form

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

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.