# Ardis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ardis/  
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 | 7,416 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,030 / 6,386 (86% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 5,996 |
| 1973 | 18 | 3,487 |
| 1974 | 7 | 6,947 |
| 1975 | 8 | 6,527 |
| 1976 | 9 | 6,075 |
| 1977 | 8 | 6,928 |
| 1980 | 8 | 7,460 |
| 1981 | 5 | 10,523 |
| 1982 | 6 | 9,304 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,375 |
| 2003 | 6 | 14,038 |
| 2015 | 6 | 14,709 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,515 |
| 2018 | 6 | 13,975 |
| 2022 | 6 | 13,767 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | 4,350 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,453 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,166 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,390 |
| 1980 | 9 | 4,156 |
| 1982 | 10 | 3,977 |
| 1984 | 6 | 5,606 |
| 1986 | 8 | 4,876 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,138 |
| 1989 | 11 | 4,540 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,231 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,328 |
| 1993 | 6 | 7,696 |
| 1999 | 5 | 10,018 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,407 |

## 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.