Pandora
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births
- Peak · girls
- 1952 · 132 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,126since 1912
Pandora over time
Rank among girls' names. Pandora has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 |
| 2023 | #3,709 | 41 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 |
| 2020 | #3,607 | 41 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 |
| 2012 | #3,006 | 56 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 |
| 1973 | #2,171 | 36 |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 |
| 1971 | #2,175 | 37 |
| 1970 | #1,653 | 56 |
| 1969 | #2,102 | 36 |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 |
| 1967 | #1,659 | 47 |
| 1966 | #1,548 | 52 |
| 1965 | #1,218 | 78 |
| 1964 | #1,172 | 88 |
| 1963 | #1,340 | 68 |
| 1962 | #1,314 | 71 |
| 1961 | #1,232 | 80 |
| 1960 | #1,131 | 92 |
| 1959 | #1,552 | 49 |
| 1958 | #1,481 | 52 |
| 1957 | #1,289 | 67 |
| 1956 | #1,114 | 86 |
| 1955 | #1,118 | 79 |
| 1954 | #1,123 | 77 |
| 1953 | #1,001 | 92 |
| 1952 | #783 | 132 |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #1,941 | 19 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 |
| 1932 | #2,831 | 10 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 |
| 1927 | #2,552 | 13 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
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| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
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| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Pandora! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1917, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Pandora is popular in 1962
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#515 · 1 in 5,075
- Florida#782 · 1 in 9,841
- California#1,148 · 1 in 19,276
Best ever in a state: #367 in South Carolina, 1952.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #515 | 5 | 1 in 5,075 |
| Florida | #782 | 5 | 1 in 9,841 |
| California | #1,148 | 9 | 1 in 19,276 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Pandora
- 638 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #4,460)
- 853 spots since 2020 (#3,607 → #4,460)
- 1,401 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #4,460)
- Biggest jump: 2,501 spots in 1952 (#3,284 → #783)
- Biggest drop: 218 spots in 1953 (#783 → #1,001)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1952 at #783 (132 births)
- Births halved by 1958, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1952
- Highest: 1 in 14,048 girls born in 1952 were named Pandora (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,847 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.1% of all girls named Pandora (660) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #2,979 (1912) | #3,635 |
| 1920s | 72 | #2,497 (1928) | #3,427 |
| 1930s | 58 | #2,750 (1931) | #3,516 |
| 1940s | 83 | #1,941 (1945) | #3,353 |
| 1950s | 659 | #783 (1952) | #1,553 |
| 1960s | 660 | #1,131 (1960) | #1,439 |
| 1970s | 285 | #1,653 (1970) | #2,913 |
| 1980s | 87 | #5,065 (1988) | #7,754 |
| 1990s | 173 | #3,730 (1998) | #6,491 |
| 2000s | 315 | #3,527 (2000) | #4,366 |
| 2010s | 498 | #3,006 (2012) | #3,261 |
| 2020s | 225 | #3,607 (2020) | #3,934 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Pandora in 1962
Top girls' names in 1962
More about 1962
girls
1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 27,699 of them was named Pandora, which outranked 82.7% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,304Raylene72
- #1,304Scott72
- #1,304Shirl72
- #1,314Pandora71
- #1,314Berta71
- #1,314Celine71
- #1,314Dreama71
- #1,323Adriane70
- #1,323Alta70
- #1,323Amie70
Tied with 8 names at #1,314; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.