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Ardell

girls’ name · 52%boys’ name · 48%FadedCompare

Ardell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 742nd, in 1922.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192296 births
Best rank
#742in 1922
Since 1889
5,070people given the name
Babies named Ardell, by year of birthgirlsboys
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The story in the numbers

2,635 girls have been named Ardell in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 96 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 96 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Ardell is used for both sexes: 48% of its bearers are boys (2,435), most of them born around 1930.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Ardell
1880s5
1890s52
1900s104
1910s474
1920s763
1930s556
1940s344
1950s240
1960s87
1970s10

In 1922, its biggest year

Ardell was the 742nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.

Names that rose and fell with Ardell

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.