Ardis
Ardis reached its high-water mark in 1928 at number 481, and has been recorded 7,416 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 2,200 Ardises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ardis boys named Ardis
Girls and boys called Ardis
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 6,386 girls and 1,030 boys in all, and in 1973 the split was 18 to 10.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 57 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,416
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 481st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1899
- Girls / boys
- 6,386 / 1,030
How old the living Ardises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,416 babies given the name since 1899, about 2,200 are alive — 30 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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 Ardis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ardis is most concentrated in North Dakota (19.4×), South Dakota (17.3×), Minnesota (12.7×), Iowa (8.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular girls’ names the year Ardis peaked:
Related names
Ardis 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.