Ardis
Ardis was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 7,416 Americans have been recorded with it between 1899 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Ardis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 67 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ardis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ardis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,762, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
228 babies in 1928, the peak
Ardis peaked in 1928, when 228 babies were given it (202 girls, #481 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #13,762 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,970 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,402 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,510 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,704 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,031 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,011 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #7,690 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,321 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,224 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | under 5 | 11 | #4,534 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,131 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #4,871 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,602 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,372 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,302 | 10 | #3,975 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,521 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,459 | 9 | #4,155 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,388 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,926 | 6 | #5,164 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,073 | 7 | #4,451 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,525 | 7 | #4,348 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,945 | 7 | #4,214 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,486 | 10 | #3,236 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,994 | 10 | #3,165 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,656 | 12 | #2,820 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,429 | 6 | #4,250 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,004 | 10 | #2,873 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,793 | 5 | #4,165 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,434 | 10 | #2,616 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,564 | 5 | #3,969 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,410 | 8 | #2,994 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,248 | 10 | #2,670 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,547 | 8 | #3,052 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,927 | 9 | #2,851 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,809 | 13 | #2,326 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,311 | 6 | #3,680 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,852 | 23 | #1,664 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,872 | 19 | #1,838 |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,441 | 18 | #1,890 |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,338 | 17 | #1,946 |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,320 | 15 | #2,051 |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,409 | 23 | #1,593 |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,111 | 13 | #2,191 |
| 1952 | 68 | #1,146 | 11 | #2,379 |
| 1951 | 83 | #1,019 | 15 | #1,976 |
| 1950 | 71 | #1,089 | 14 | #2,026 |
| 1949 | 88 | #949 | 17 | #1,822 |
| 1948 | 90 | #913 | 18 | #1,760 |
| 1947 | 89 | #936 | 15 | #1,993 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,005 | 13 | #2,031 |
| 1945 | 88 | #803 | 13 | #1,929 |
| 1944 | 114 | #702 | 10 | #2,317 |
| 1943 | 118 | #705 | 19 | #1,639 |
| 1942 | 113 | #701 | 15 | #1,869 |
| 1941 | 97 | #714 | 16 | #1,762 |
| 1940 | 127 | #622 | 8 | #2,674 |
| 1939 | 133 | #580 | 9 | #2,460 |
| 1938 | 143 | #573 | 20 | #1,522 |
| 1937 | 149 | #547 | 6 | #3,189 |
| 1936 | 153 | #524 | 16 | #1,727 |
| 1935 | 154 | #516 | 12 | #2,131 |
| 1934 | 154 | #519 | 17 | #1,727 |
| 1933 | 167 | #491 | 17 | #1,712 |
| 1932 | 184 | #488 | 18 | #1,717 |
| 1931 | 179 | #477 | 17 | #1,772 |
| 1930 | 193 | #481 | 15 | #1,967 |
| 1929 | 169 | #525 | 16 | #1,935 |
| 1928 | 202 | #481 | 26 | #1,449 |
| 1927 | 198 | #497 | 25 | #1,520 |
| 1926 | 180 | #522 | 21 | #1,663 |
| 1925 | 201 | #492 | 16 | #2,011 |
| 1924 | 199 | #497 | 25 | #1,534 |
| 1923 | 167 | #559 | 17 | #1,945 |
| 1922 | 181 | #520 | 22 | #1,649 |
| 1921 | 190 | #512 | 28 | #1,415 |
| 1920 | 158 | #570 | 13 | #2,343 |
| 1919 | 136 | #604 | 21 | #1,625 |
| 1918 | 124 | #640 | 17 | #1,906 |
| 1917 | 141 | #568 | 27 | #1,325 |
| 1916 | 123 | #607 | 16 | #1,856 |
| 1915 | 119 | #599 | 14 | #1,973 |
| 1914 | 59 | #748 | 6 | #2,939 |
| 1913 | 55 | #701 | 15 | #1,368 |
| 1912 | 50 | #710 | 7 | #2,053 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,117 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 21 | #942 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,294 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 22 | #832 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,301 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 18 | #874 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,014 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,258 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 13 | #974 | 6 | #1,012 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,027 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,233 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,012 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 19 | #729 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ardis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,416 Americans recorded as Ardis, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ardis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ardis, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 28% of the 7,416 Americans ever recorded as Ardis. The median Ardis alive today is 76 years old; half are between 67 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 3,010 people named Ardis (2,605 women and girls, 405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 733 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 975 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 262 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 71 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ardis born?
The states with the most babies named Ardis are Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, with 49% 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 | 992 | not ranked | 6.2× |
| Michigan | 575 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Wisconsin | 482 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Iowa | 470 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| North Dakota | 277 | not ranked | 5.9× |
| Nebraska | 259 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| South Dakota | 247 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Louisiana | 184 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 160 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 158 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Ardis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ardis is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 6.2 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 Ardis 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,375 babies since 1880, Ardis is the most given (89% 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 Ardis
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 Ardis and names like it
- Compare Ardis and ArdysBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArdis peaked in 1928.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ardis since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Ardis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ardis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.