# Wardell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wardell/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,326 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,290 / 36 (1% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 8 | 3,857 |
| 1922 | 5 | 5,765 |
| 1925 | 5 | 5,745 |
| 1929 | 5 | 5,257 |
| 1942 | 8 | 3,727 |
| 1944 | 5 | 5,226 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 8 | 8,600 |
| 2004 | 12 | 6,501 |
| 2005 | 5 | 13,272 |
| 2006 | 14 | 6,076 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,286 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,472 |
| 2009 | 12 | 7,211 |
| 2010 | 10 | 8,101 |
| 2011 | 5 | 14,237 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,665 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,670 |
| 2015 | 6 | 12,014 |
| 2016 | 6 | 12,096 |
| 2019 | 6 | 12,055 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,940 |

## People named Wardell

- Charles Wardell Stiles, American parasitologist (1867-1941)
- Stephen Curry, American basketball player (born 1988)
- Dell Curry, American basketball player (born 1964)
- Peter Hogg, Canadian lawyer (1939-2020)

## 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.