# Ardell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ardell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,070 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,435 / 2,635 (52% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 30 | 1,968 |
| 1957 | 13 | 3,321 |
| 1958 | 15 | 3,093 |
| 1959 | 18 | 2,766 |
| 1960 | 20 | 2,736 |
| 1961 | 10 | 4,258 |
| 1962 | 9 | 4,550 |
| 1963 | 9 | 4,557 |
| 1964 | 12 | 3,885 |
| 1965 | 7 | 5,312 |
| 1966 | 8 | 4,890 |
| 1968 | 6 | 6,294 |
| 1969 | 6 | 6,664 |
| 1971 | 5 | 8,409 |
| 1977 | 5 | 9,740 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | 9,327 |
| 2002 | 6 | 9,464 |
| 2003 | 10 | 6,760 |
| 2004 | 7 | 8,990 |
| 2006 | 7 | 9,647 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,152 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,097 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,383 |
| 2011 | 7 | 9,678 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,722 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,098 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,766 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,164 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,284 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,389 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.