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Ardis

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ardis has been given to 7,416 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 1928, with 202 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.

Babies named Ardis, 2022

1 in 564,000

Ardis over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ardis over time

In 2022, Ardis went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18992022

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.

Ardis: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ardis means

Ardis is a given name.

The naming story behind Ardis

Wikidata records Ardis as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q25113822, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,386 girls were recorded with the name Ardis between 1899 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 202 in 1928; its best national rank was #477 in 1931.

In the United States, 1,030 boys were recorded with the name Ardis between 1903 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,012 in 1903.

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.

How common is Ardis?

Ardis 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 girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ardis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 Ardis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ardiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardis was born before 1931 — so the typical Ardis is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.45%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
944
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1920s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (1,845).

Is Ardis 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 1928 (202)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#477
1931

Spellings of Ardis

Ardis is not the most common spelling — Iris is, with 23.7% against Ardis's 1.5%.

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 Ardis is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ardis was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 1,961 girls, against 1 in 25,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

051 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 1,961
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 2,174
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 3,030
  4. 4Iowa1 in 4,545
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 4,545
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 6,667
  7. 7Michigan1 in 11,111
  8. 8Kansas1 in 33,333

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. Ardis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ardis is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ardis was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 92,259 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ardis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Ardis

People whose public names include Ardis, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ardis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#477
1931
Peak year
1928
202 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
6,386
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,012
1903
Peak year
1921
28 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,030
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ardis

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

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Names with a curve like Ardis

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ardis, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ardis

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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