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Ardi

Boys' name

Mountain

Ardi has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2008, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Ardi, 2022

1 in 564,000

Ardi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ardi: meaning, origin, and history

Mountain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ardi means

Ardi means “mountain”, associated with ardi.

Origin, language, and formation

Ardi is used in Estonian and Indonesian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Artur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 70 boys were recorded with the name Ardi between 2002 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2008; its best national rank was #7,730 in 2008.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ardi?

Ardi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ardi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ardi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ardis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardi was born before 2011 — so the typical Ardi is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
70
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Ardi 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 2008 (10)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,730
2008

Spellings of Ardi

Ardi is not the most common spelling — Andy is, with 23.7% against Ardi's 0.02%.

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.

Ardi around the world

Where Ardi 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.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2005–2017
    #5,178
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ardi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,730
2008
Peak year
2008
10 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
70
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ardi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArdanArdinArdynArdaArdonArditArdelArdithArdeanErdiArdianArdathArdieZacardiYordiGeordiArdysArdisArdariusVerdiArdineArdwinFardiArden

Sibling names for Ardi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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