Ardis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ardis

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,386 babies named Ardis between 1899 and 2022, spanning 124 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ardis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 202 babies received it in a single year. Ardis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,030 additional births since 1903.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ardis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,845 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Ardis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 992 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Ardis in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ardis 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 6,386 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.