Ardelia
Ardelia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 745th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192439 births
- Best rank
- #745in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,370people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,370 girls have been named Ardelia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 39 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ardelia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 40 | |
| 1890s | 79 | |
| 1900s | 122 | |
| 1910s | 232 | |
| 1920s | 258 | |
| 1930s | 179 | |
| 1940s | 163 | |
| 1950s | 142 | |
| 1960s | 82 | |
| 1970s | 41 | |
| 1980s | 26 | |
| 1990s | 6 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Ardelia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Ardelia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Easterpeak 1925
- Idellapeak 1921
- Lethapeak 1918
- Claudiepeak 1918
- Elvapeak 1918
- Leathapeak 1916
- Essiepeak 1921
- Classiepeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.