Ardel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ardel

The Social Security Administration has registered 97 babies named Ardel between 1917 and 1963, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ardel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1963. The name reached its historical peak in 1937, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Ardel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ardel performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ardel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ardel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 97 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.