Feminine dossier · first seen 1889

Ardell

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Ardell
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1922

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1889Peak 19222024

Peak year

1922

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,635

Ardell has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1922, when 96 girls were named Ardell.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,635 Americans have been named Ardell and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1889.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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