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Ardella

Ardella reached its high-water mark in 1924 at number 705, and has been recorded 3,478 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 890 Ardellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ardella

By the numbers

Total US births
3,478
Estimated living today
890
Median age today
74
Peak year
1924
Best rank
705th
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1880

How old the living Ardellas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,478 babies given the name since 1880, about 890 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 660 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ardella is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ardella is most concentrated in North Dakota (31.6×), Minnesota (12.6×), South Dakota (9.3×), Indiana (4.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1924

The most popular girls’ names the year Ardella peaked:

All the names of 1924

Related names

Ardella against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.