Ardella

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births

Peak · girls
1883 · 9 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,478
since 1880

Ardella over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ardella has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201897peak #651, 1883girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024—
2023—
2022#10,3839
2021—
2020#11,0908
2019—
2018—
2017—
2016—
2015—
2014#13,0697
2013—
2012—
2011—
2010—
2009—
2008—
2007—
2006—
2005—
2004—
2003—
2002—
2001—
2000—
1999—
1998—
1997—
1996—
1995—
1994—
1993—
1992—
1991—
1990—
1989#8,7618
1988#11,7985
1987—
1986—
1985—
1984—
1983—
1982#9,2376
1981#5,88511
1980#8,1787
1979#9,0106
1978—
1977#9,6525
1976#7,2967
1975#9,0675
1974—
1973#5,19110
1972—
1971#4,53412
1970#6,3627
1969#4,72310
1968#4,48910
1967#3,48414
1966#4,4939
1965#4,20210
1964#3,69213
1963#2,78020
1962#3,03317
1961#2,54323
1960#2,90418
1959#2,45822
1958#2,50621
1957#1,98930
1956#1,96830
1955#2,02428
1954#2,24023
1953#1,78331
1952#1,68034
1951#1,55537
1950#1,47439
1949#1,88226
1948#1,70830
1947#1,63334
1946#1,31843
1945#1,66025
1944#1,27239
1943#1,15449
1942#1,26440
1941#1,11744
1940#95357
1939#90360
1938#83072
1937#76879
1936#81867
1935#81370
1934#79471
1933#76175
1932#79573
1931#83068
1930#85670
1929#82873
1928#78683
1927#72897
1926#76390
1925#76494
1924#705111
1923#76091
1922#73099
1921#76192
1920#82177
1919#92558
1918#85171
1917#81272
1916#84065
1915#80267
1914#82750
1913#75848
1912#90331
1911#77731
1910#91422
1909#76128
1908#84921
1907#77523
1906#76523
1905#68327
1904#71024
1903#93114
1902#66725
1901#68422
1900#83320
1899#87814
1898#96313
1897#78616
1896#75418
1895#1,05310
1894#1,0619
1893#1,2776
1892#1,0858
1891#75013
1890#1,2106
1889#1,1476
1888#1,0367
1887—
1886#73110
1885#9216
1884#9306
1883#6519
1882#7407
1881#6797
1880#7386
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Ardella was already there! It came in at #738, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1887, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Ardella is popular in 1897

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Ardella
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 173 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,917)
  • Biggest jump: 460 spots in 1891 (#1,210 → #750)
  • Biggest drop: 335 spots in 1892 (#750 → #1,085)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1883 at #651 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 53 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 53 yrs · run 1896–1940
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,563
  • Highest: 1 in 10,563 girls born in 1902 were named Ardella (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #651 in 1883, was only 1 in 12,480 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 26.1% of all girls named Ardella (907) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s64#651 (1883)#841
1890s113#750 (1891)#982
1900s227#667 (1902)#766
1910s515#758 (1913)#841
1920s907#705 (1924)#765
1930s705#761 (1933)#817
1940s387#953 (1940)#1,396
1950s295#1,474 (1950)#1,968
1960s144#2,543 (1961)#3,634
1970s52#4,534 (1971)#7,302
1980s37#5,885 (1981)#8,772
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s7#13,069 (2014)#13,069
2020s25#10,383 (2022)#10,797

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ardella in 1897

girls
#786
16 births · 1 in 14,638 girls

Top girls' names in 1897

  1. #1Mary13,413
  2. #2Anna5,429
  3. #3Helen4,519
  4. #4Margaret4,146
  5. #5Ruth3,878
  6. #6Elizabeth3,442
  7. #7Florence3,369
  8. #8Ethel3,182
  9. #9Marie3,078
  10. #10Emma2,698
  11. #786Ardella16
More about 1897

girls

234,200 girls got a published name in 1897; 1 in 14,638 of them was named Ardella, which outranked 56.3% of the 1,799 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ardella
  1. #761Nella17
  2. #761Rosia17
  3. #761Walter17
  4. #786Ardella16
  5. #786Adda16
  6. #786Adrienne16
  7. #786Aida16
  8. #826Abigail15
  9. #826Adelle15
  10. #826Alvena15

Tied with 39 names at #786; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1896
Risers
  1. ↑ 688Lupe#1,583 → #895
  2. ↑ 652Carl#1,583 → #931
  3. ↑ 652Dortha#1,583 → #931
  4. ↑ 652Judy#1,583 → #931
  5. ↑ 630Dagmar#1,416 → #786
Fallers
  1. ↓ 848Myrta#707 → #1,555
  2. ↓ 848Ouida#707 → #1,555
  3. ↓ 712Jeanie#843 → #1,555
  4. ↓ 652Orrie#903 → #1,555
  5. ↓ 605Louetta#950 → #1,555

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1897 →