Ardie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ardie

The Social Security Administration has registered 568 babies named Ardie between 1892 and 1976, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ardie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1976. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Ardie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 517 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ardie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ardie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ardie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ardie 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 568 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.