Ardelle
Ardelle was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 1,500 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ardelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ardelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,186, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1925, the peak
Ardelle peaked in 1925, when 71 girls were given it, #877 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,186 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,605 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,320 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,874 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,191 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,647 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,865 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,728 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,609 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,377 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 7 | #4,398 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,915 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,732 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,598 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,453 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,234 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,152 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,206 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,793 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,705 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,357 | 26.5 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,406 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,266 | 31.0 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,442 | 24.5 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,333 | 28.2 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,245 | 31.7 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,220 | 32.4 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,168 | 35.4 |
| 1933 | 36 | #1,179 | 35.7 |
| 1932 | 44 | #1,071 | 41.2 |
| 1931 | 52 | #959 | 48.8 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,290 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,137 | 37.6 |
| 1928 | 68 | #888 | 59.0 |
| 1927 | 50 | #1,082 | 41.9 |
| 1926 | 50 | #1,056 | 42.2 |
| 1925 | 71 | #877 | 58.3 |
| 1924 | 54 | #1,060 | 43.2 |
| 1923 | 51 | #1,065 | 42.3 |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,089 | 40.8 |
| 1921 | 50 | #1,072 | 40.5 |
| 1920 | 54 | #1,005 | 45.1 |
| 1919 | 48 | #1,042 | 42.5 |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,203 | 33.7 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,308 | 28.7 |
| 1916 | 44 | #1,045 | 42.1 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,232 | 32.5 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,485 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,535 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,625 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,641 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,108 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,687 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,086 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,744 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,949 | 17.1 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,450 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,811 | 18.9 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,393 | 25.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ardelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ardelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ardelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ardelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 270 Americans named Ardelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 76 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 563 people named Ardelle (544 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Ardelle born?
The states with the most babies named Ardelle are Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 244 | not ranked | 7.6× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 42 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Iowa | 34 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Dakota | 20 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Dakota | 15 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Ardelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ardelle is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 7.6 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 Ardelle 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, Ardelle is the second most given (24% 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 Ardelle
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 Ardelle and names like it
- Compare Ardelle and ArdellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArdelle peaked in 1925.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ardelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Ardelle.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Ardelle alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with AMost given first.