Ardis
Ardis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 477th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1928202 births
- Best rank
- #477in 1931
- Since 1899
- 7,416people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,386 girls have been named Ardis in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 202 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 202 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,030 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ardis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 19 | |
| 1900s | 131 | |
| 1910s | 844 | |
| 1920s | 1,845 | |
| 1930s | 1,609 | |
| 1940s | 994 | |
| 1950s | 591 | |
| 1960s | 216 | |
| 1970s | 84 | |
| 1980s | 24 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 17 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Ardis was the 481st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Ardis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorthypeak 1927
- Melbapeak 1924
- Dorispeak 1928
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Ethelenepeak 1925
- Maudinepeak 1925
- Loispeak 1927
- Syblepeak 1920
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.