Ardath
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ardath has been given to 1,348 babies in the U.S. since 1899. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Ardath, 1972
1 in 629,000
Ardath over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ardath?
Ardath had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1972
- 1 in 629,000
- 5 of 3,142,796 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 304,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1972
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 435,685 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ardath sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 435,685 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ardath. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ardaths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardath was born before 1925 — so the typical Ardath is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 31.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (421).
Is Ardath rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1923 (61)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Ardath
Ardath is not the most common spelling — Ariah is, with 34.2% against Ardath's 3.9%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ardath is used
Across 1910–2025, Ardath was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 370,614 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 100,000
- 2Nebraska1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Minnesota1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ardath has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ardath by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ardath
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ardath
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.