Ardith

Last seen for girls in 1985 at #7,563 · Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,886
Given to girls 97.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1935 · 167 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,581
since 1904

Ardith over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ardith has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201912peak #487, 1935girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1904

The first year at least five girls were named Ardith! It came in at #1,364, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1905, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Ardith is popular in 1912

No state had 5 or more girls named Ardith in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ardith
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1985
  • Biggest jump: 148 spots in 1914 (#1,003 → #855)
  • Biggest drop: 250 spots in 1951 (#818 → #1,068)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1904
  • Peaked 1935 at #487 (167 births)
  • Births halved by 1951, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 37 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1914–1950
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,279
  • Highest: 1 in 6,279 girls born in 1935 were named Ardith (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 215,104 girls born in 1985 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1930s
  • 28.6% of all girls named Ardith (1,597) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s47#1,203 (1908)#1,359
1910s521#737 (1918)#946
1920s1,296#612 (1927)#636
1930s1,597#487 (1935)#518
1940s1,211#531 (1940)#727
1950s578#818 (1950)#1,422
1960s216#2,070 (1961)#2,791
1970s98#3,508 (1971)#6,204
1980s17#6,705 (1983)#7,134

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.

Ardith in 1912

girls
#1,032
25 births · 1 in 22,325 girls

Top girls' names in 1912

  1. #1Mary32,304
  2. #2Helen16,133
  3. #3Dorothy12,645
  4. #4Margaret12,536
  5. #5Ruth11,280
  6. #6Mildred8,764
  7. #7Anna8,586
  8. #8Elizabeth8,527
  9. #9Frances6,680
  10. #10Marie6,642
  11. #1,032Ardith25
More about 1912

girls

558,119 girls got a published name in 1912; 1 in 22,325 of them was named Ardith, which outranked 70.0% of the 3,445 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ardith
  1. #1,003Tempie26
  2. #1,003Theodosia26
  3. #1,003Zita26
  4. #1,032Ardith25
  5. #1,032Aurore25
  6. #1,032Carole25
  7. #1,032Ceil25
  8. #1,055Abigail24
  9. #1,055Almira24
  10. #1,055Ana24

Tied with 22 names at #1,032; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1911
Risers
  1. ↑ 712Jule#1,545 → #833
  2. ↑ 626Beula#1,545 → #919
  3. ↑ 602Noma#1,372 → #770
  4. ↑ 577Walter#1,372 → #795
  5. ↑ 490Izora#1,450 → #960
Fallers
  1. ↓ 912Mabell#932 → #1,844
  2. ↓ 602Justina#875 → #1,477
  3. ↓ 579Irine#898 → #1,477
  4. ↓ 579Sula#898 → #1,477
  5. ↓ 568Cordia#853 → #1,421

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

See the top 100 for 1912 →