Ordell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ordell

The Social Security Administration has registered 185 babies named Ordell between 1916 and 1948, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ordell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1948. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Ordell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 53 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ordell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ordell shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ordell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ordell 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 185 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.