Pandora
Only about fifteen women in Poland carry this name, so most people here have never met a single one. It comes from Greek Pandora, "all gifts", and it goes to girls alone.
Pandora Pronunciation
Pandora is pronounced pahn-DO-rah (/panˈdɔra/).
What Pandora means
Where Pandora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Pandora comes from Greek. Pan means "all," and dōron means "gift." Read together they give "all gifts," or in Polish wszystkie dary. The two small roots sit inside the name and never leave it.
Hesiod told her story first. In his account the gods shape the first woman from earth and water, and each Olympian hands her a quality. The name keeps a record of that giving. She also receives a sealed jar, a pithos, which her curiosity opens. Centuries later Erasmus rendered pithos as a box, and the mistranslation stuck.
A child called Pandora carries a Greek word for abundance rather than any warning from the tale. On a Polish class register she stands apart from the Zuzannas and Julias around her. The name is rare here, and it stays legible. Anyone who knows a little Greek can still read the two pieces inside it: pan and dōron, all gifts.
How many people are named Pandora
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Pandora. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12228 among female names.
Pandora as a middle name
Pandora is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2198th, between Ornella (12) and Reese (12).
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#2196 Olesia12
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#2197 Ornella12
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#2198 Pandora12
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#2199 Reese12
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#2200 Renia12