Meaning not yet researched.
Ardella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #651 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #651 in 1883; #11,038 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ardella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,038 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #651.
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Ardella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #651 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 111 (1924).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Ardella, making it the 11,038th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #651, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 111, in 1924. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,475 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ardella in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 3,478 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 907 babies named Ardella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 25 US girls were named Ardella; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ardala are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ardala (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ardella in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,038 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,479 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,200 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,225 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,817 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,948 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,303 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,225 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,089 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,741 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,340 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,155 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,212 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,405 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,503 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,496 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,511 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1940 | 57 | #953 | — | — |
| 1939 | 60 | #904 | — | — |
| 1938 | 72 | #830 | — | — |
| 1937 | 79 | #768 | — | — |
| 1936 | 67 | #818 | — | — |
| 1935 | 70 | #813 | — | — |
| 1934 | 71 | #794 | — | — |
| 1933 | 75 | #761 | — | — |
| 1932 | 73 | #795 | — | — |
| 1931 | 68 | #830 | — | — |
| 1930 | 70 | #856 | — | — |
| 1929 | 73 | #829 | — | — |
| 1928 | 83 | #786 | — | — |
| 1927 | 97 | #729 | — | — |
| 1926 | 90 | #763 | — | — |
| 1925 | 94 | #764 | — | — |
| 1924 | 111 | #705 | — | — |
| 1923 | 91 | #762 | — | — |
| 1922 | 99 | #730 | — | — |
| 1921 | 92 | #761 | — | — |
| 1920 | 77 | #821 | — | — |
| 1919 | 58 | #926 | — | — |
| 1918 | 71 | #853 | — | — |
| 1917 | 72 | #812 | — | — |
| 1916 | 65 | #840 | — | — |
| 1915 | 67 | #802 | — | — |
| 1914 | 50 | #829 | — | — |
| 1913 | 48 | #758 | — | — |
| 1912 | 31 | #904 | — | — |
| 1911 | 31 | #777 | — | — |
| 1910 | 22 | #918 | — | — |
| 1909 | 28 | #762 | — | — |
| 1908 | 21 | #851 | — | — |
| 1907 | 23 | #775 | — | — |
| 1906 | 23 | #766 | — | — |
| 1905 | 27 | #685 | — | — |
| 1904 | 24 | #711 | — | — |
| 1903 | 14 | #932 | — | — |
| 1902 | 25 | #669 | — | — |
| 1901 | 22 | #684 | — | — |
| 1900 | 20 | #833 | — | — |
| 1899 | 14 | #879 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #967 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #791 | — | — |
| 1896 | 18 | #757 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1891 | 13 | #752 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #735 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #927 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #934 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #651 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #747 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #685 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #746 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).