Ardith
Ardith was last recorded in 1985, when 8 babies were given it; 5,712 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Ardith and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 71 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ardith by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ardith?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,602, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
182 babies in 1930, the peak
Ardith peaked in 1930, when 182 babies were given it (176 girls, #504 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 8 | #7,602 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,746 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,618 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,546 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,381 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,116 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,995 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 18 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,721 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,785 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,265 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,071 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,055 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,940 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,335 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 60 | #1,248 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 114 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 99 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 121 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 109 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 107 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 85 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 107 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 118 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 151 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 148 | #572 | 0.12 |
| 1940 | 166 | #531 | 0.15 |
| 1939 | 161 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1938 | 169 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 153 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 142 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 167 | #487 | 0.16 |
| 1934 | 149 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 149 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 163 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 168 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1930 | 176 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1929 | 120 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 126 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1927 | 136 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 129 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 123 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 125 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 141 | #620 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 139 | #624 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 140 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 117 | #672 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 90 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 94 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 71 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 84 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 56 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 47 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,005 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ardith a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,712 Americans recorded as Ardith, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ardith: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ardith, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 31% of the 5,712 Americans ever recorded as Ardith. The median Ardith alive today is 79 years old; half are between 71 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 2,630 people named Ardith (2,564 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 755 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 844 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 167 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
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 Ardith born?
The states with the most babies named Ardith are Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 636 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Iowa | 413 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Minnesota | 320 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Nebraska | 306 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Illinois | 255 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 238 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 227 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 139 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 132 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 126 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Ardith is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ardith is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1910 it was given 5.0 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 Ardith 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,895 babies since 1880, Ardith is the most given (64% 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 Ardith
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 Ardith and names like it
- Compare Ardith and ArdathBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArdith peaked in 1930.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ardith since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Ardith.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ardith alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.