Ardelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ardelle has been given to 1,500 babies in the U.S. since 1897. 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 1925, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Ardelle, 1981
1 in 577,000
Ardelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ardelle?
Ardelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 577,000
- 6 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 278,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 399,616 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ardelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ardelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ardelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardelle was born before 1928 — so the typical Ardelle is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 35.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 92
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (539).
Is Ardelle 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1925 (71)
- Years since peak
- 100
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ardelle
Ardelle is not the most common spelling — Brielle is, with 23.9% against Ardelle's 0.72%.
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 Ardelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Ardelle was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 109,704 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
- 2North Dakota1 in 25,000
- 3South Dakota1 in 33,333
- 4Iowa1 in 50,000
- 5Illinois1 in 100,000
- 6Wisconsin1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Massachusetts1 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. Ardelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ardelle around the world
Where Ardelle 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 Australia1991–1991#669in 1991
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ardelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ardelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ardelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.