Ardell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ardell

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,635 babies named Ardell between 1889 and 1977, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ardell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1977. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 96 babies received it in a single year. Ardell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,435 additional births since 1907.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ardell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 763 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ardell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 246 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Ardell in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ardell 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 2,635 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.