Pandora

Where Pandora comes from

Pandora hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Peak, #783
    132 babies named Pandora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,481.
  4. 1970
    Pandora born
    Swedish singer, recording artist, musician
  5. 1972
    Pandora Boxx born
    American drag queen
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Pandora · Swedish singer, recording artist, musician, born 1970
  • Pandora Boxx · American drag queen, born 1972
  • Pandora Nox · Austrian drag performer, born 1993
  • Pandora Clifford · British actress, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.