Ardean
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ardean has been given to 399 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1924, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.
Babies named Ardean, 1965
1 in 725,000
Ardean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ardean over time
In 1965, Ardean went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ardean?
Ardean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,625,243 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 353,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,567 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ardean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ardean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ardeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardean was born before 1937 — so the typical Ardean is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 25.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 44.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 55
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Ardean 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 1924 (15)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ardean
Ardean is not the most common spelling — Arleen is, with 22.1% against Ardean's 0.44%.
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.
Ardean around the world
Where Ardean ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1990–1990#484in 1990
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ardean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ardean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ardean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.