The name meaning “all-gifted” and given to Zeus’s created woman is Pandora.
Pandora’s name comes from Greek elements commonly understood as “all” and “gifts,” reflecting the story’s idea that the gods gave her many qualities or adornments. In Hesiod, she is fashioned at Zeus’s command and presented as a gift to Epimetheus after the conflict involving Prometheus and fire.
The English expression “Pandora’s box” is now much more familiar than the ancient Greek wording. Early versions describe a jar or container, and the phrase “box” developed through later translation and retelling. The name Pandora itself, however, remains tied to the divine gifts that shape her presentation.
Pandora is sometimes treated as though she were simply the first woman in every Greek myth, but that broad claim oversimplifies the sources. Her role is specific to the Hesiodic account of human suffering, divine punishment, and the arrival of troubles in the mortal world.