Ardella
Ardella was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,034 among girls’ names; 3,478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ardella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ardella?
#11,034 among girls’ names, 2025
Ardella entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,034 in 2025.
111 babies in 1924, the peak
Ardella peaked in 1924, when 111 girls were given it, #705 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,034 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,474 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,195 | 4.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,219 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,811 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,941 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,301 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,907 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,224 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,087 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #9,739 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,338 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,153 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,210 | 6.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,547 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,404 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,735 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,502 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,495 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,510 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,212 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,701 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,785 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,040 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,547 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,906 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,461 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,508 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,990 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,968 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,024 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,242 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,783 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,680 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,555 | 20.5 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,474 | 22.8 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,884 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,708 | 17.7 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,634 | 19.2 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,319 | 27.4 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,661 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,273 | 29.4 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,153 | 35.1 |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,266 | 29.6 |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,118 | 36.4 |
| 1940 | 57 | #953 | 49.8 |
| 1939 | 60 | #904 | 54.7 |
| 1938 | 72 | #830 | 65.2 |
| 1937 | 79 | #768 | 74.2 |
| 1936 | 67 | #818 | 64.4 |
| 1935 | 70 | #813 | 66.8 |
| 1934 | 71 | #794 | 68.0 |
| 1933 | 75 | #761 | 74.4 |
| 1932 | 73 | #795 | 68.4 |
| 1931 | 68 | #830 | 63.9 |
| 1930 | 70 | #856 | 62.2 |
| 1929 | 73 | #829 | 65.4 |
| 1928 | 83 | #786 | 72.0 |
| 1927 | 97 | #729 | 81.3 |
| 1926 | 90 | #763 | 75.9 |
| 1925 | 94 | #764 | 77.2 |
| 1924 | 111 | #705 | 88.9 |
| 1923 | 91 | #762 | 75.4 |
| 1922 | 99 | #730 | 82.4 |
| 1921 | 92 | #761 | 74.6 |
| 1920 | 77 | #821 | 64.3 |
| 1919 | 58 | #926 | 51.3 |
| 1918 | 71 | #853 | 61.3 |
| 1917 | 72 | #812 | 66.6 |
| 1916 | 65 | #840 | 62.2 |
| 1915 | 67 | #802 | 68.1 |
| 1914 | 50 | #829 | 65.7 |
| 1913 | 48 | #758 | 76.9 |
| 1912 | 31 | #904 | 55.5 |
| 1911 | 31 | #777 | 74.1 |
| 1910 | 22 | #918 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 28 | #762 | 80.6 |
| 1908 | 21 | #851 | 62.8 |
| 1907 | 23 | #775 | 72.2 |
| 1906 | 23 | #766 | 77.9 |
| 1905 | 27 | #685 | 92.6 |
| 1904 | 24 | #711 | 87.2 |
| 1903 | 14 | #932 | 53.4 |
| 1902 | 25 | #669 | 94.7 |
| 1901 | 22 | #684 | 91.9 |
| 1900 | 20 | #833 | 66.7 |
| 1899 | 14 | #879 | 60.1 |
| 1898 | 13 | #967 | 50.2 |
| 1897 | 16 | #791 | 68.3 |
| 1896 | 18 | #757 | 75.7 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,057 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,065 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,286 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,090 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 13 | #752 | 70.1 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,219 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,154 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,042 | 39.2 |
| 1886 | 10 | #735 | 69.2 |
| 1885 | 6 | #927 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 6 | #934 | 46.5 |
| 1883 | 9 | #651 | 80.1 |
| 1882 | 7 | #747 | 64.9 |
| 1881 | 7 | #685 | 76.1 |
| 1880 | 6 | #746 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ardella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ardella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ardella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ardella, and how old are they?
An estimated 854 Americans named Ardella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,076 people named Ardella (1,075 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,133 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ardella born?
The states with the most babies named Ardella are Minnesota, Pennsylvania and North Dakota, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and North Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 200 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 135 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Dakota | 92 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Indiana | 91 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Mississippi | 38 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Dakota | 27 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Ardella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ardella is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ardella with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,348 babies since 1880, Ardella is the most given (55% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ardella
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ardella and names like it
- Compare Ardella and ArdelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArdella peaked in 1924.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ardella since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Ardella.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ardella alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.