girls:
3.1k births since 1912
#3144 (45th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1912
#4916 (36th percentile)
The name Pandora is the #4,916 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,054 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 36.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,144 (45.0% percentile) for all time with 3,054 births since 1912.
Pandora first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for girls in 1912). Birth data for Pandora is available in 100 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Pandora reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 18.4% percentile (ranked #563) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 69 births per million (ranked 18.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Pandora ranks #912 for girls (3.7% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 33.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pandora".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pandora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.2% confident that Pandora is pronounced as pan-DAW-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PAN-daw-ruh, at 26.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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